A Reminder From A Good Friend
After announcing in my blog last week that I was going on a diet to lose the 40 pounds weighing me down, my good friend, David Price, emailed me a blog post that I wrote two years ago when I previously attempted to shed some tonnage. I thought it might be a humorous story for…
Appreciating Being Vaporized
“You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” – James 4:14-15 {ESV} What humbling words find us from the unapologetic pen of the Apostle James. For all man’s bluster and bravado we are quickly reproved with the…
What Should We Think?
“Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.” – Psalm 89:9 {KJV} “He has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has shaken the kingdoms;”- Isaiah 23:11 {ESV} Most of us watched in stunned silence the images of catastrophe in Japan yesterday. It had been nearly seven…
Exemplary Endurance
“You have granted me life and steadfast love, and Your care has preserved my spirit.” – Job 10:12 {ESV} A suffering man wrote those words. Somehow through the suffocating thicket of circumstantial thorns which closed in upon Job, he managed to breathe out a statement of faith-filled facts to the God who was sovereign over…
The First Three Letters Of The Word DIET
Accountability… Does anyone experience a surge of joy when reading that word? We are all aware that the word accountability represents a healthy reality in each of our lives, but does anyone get excited about being accountable? I’m accountable to Amy and we have had some intense conservation at times over the years about areas…
Earth’s Greatest Resource
“He sent out His word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction.” – Psalm 107:20 {ESV} Reading was something that God enabled me to do at a young age. I remember that words came easily to me while I struggled as a child with so many other things. For the most part, I…
A Prohibition and A Promise
“Never be wise in your own sight.” – Romans 12:16b The words above are a knockout punch to our pride. The infinite counsel of God to all of us through Paul’s quill removes from us the option of ever leaning upon our own wisdom. The command anticipates that we will, at some point, take an…
Creating A Season for Yourself?
“There is a lighthouse out at sea: it is a calm night—I cannot tell whether the edifice is firm; the tempest must rage about it, and then I shall know whether it will stand. So with the Spirit’s work: if it were not on many occasions surrounded with tempestuous waters, we should not know that…
Stupid Americans
“America is becoming increasingly defined as a land of collective silliness.” –Jeff Lyle I searched all morning for a quote to help me launch into what I wanted to say and couldn’t find one. So I spoke to myself and then quoted myself in order to get on with things. This little rant will be…
Something We Need To Hear
“We worship our work, work at our play and play at our worship.” –Gordon Dahl I know nothing of Gordon Dahl beyond the fact that, when he penned this statement in 1972, he hit the nail squarely on its head (Work, Play, and Worship in a Leisure-Oriented Society; Augsburg Fortress Publishers). Mr. Dahl wrote that nearly…