Pretty Sure
I’m pretty sure I heard God chuckle when I handed him a piece of paper with my own plans for my life written down. I’m pretty sure I heard that paper being crumpled up by a gentle, omnipotent hand and I’m pretty sure He had a compassionate smile on His face as He did so….
Toad-Taught Theology
Walking into my office this morning, my attention was drawn to an object perched right outside my door, directly in the light from the streetlamp. As I took a few steps closer I realized that I was looking at a large brown toad who was enjoying the predawn moisture from the sidewalk as he must…
Help For Dissatisfied Saints
A result of walking in grace is that you not only possess but also sense the hunger to become more like your Savior. Embedded in your salvation there is the seed of yearning which grows and grows more as your soul is fed. The results of this transforming aspect of grace are discovered in that…
I Love You
We cannot strategize ourselves into spiritual revival. We cannot study ourselves into breakthroughs that seem to have evaded us for too long. We will not discipline ourselves into joy, peace and love. While I personally believe in and engage in strategic planning, studying of God’s word and practice personal spiritual disciplines… I find that the…
Taught By Toothpaste
Yesterday morning my fourth-grade son bounds down the stairs and makes his typical morning entrance into the room. The boy lives life with zest and you will ALWAYS hear him before you see him. His loud voice rounded the corner as he sang one of his I-just-made-this-up-and-must-share-it-with-you songs. We congratulated him on his bewildering ballad…
He Works With Ash
God created the cosmos from nothing. God formed man from the dust of the earth and breathed life into him. God established an innumerable host of angels to serve as His own eternal ministers of good. God sustains the entire universe by the Word of His power. He is an awesome, glorious, immeasurable, all-wise, all-mighty…
Sunday Exhale
Father, How strong was my sense of You being at work when I arose this morning. You have trained me to try to get up early each day but I have never risen earlier than You. While so many of us have Sundays that are filled with ministry, responsibilities to others and hearts bursting with…
Forced To Choose?
Sitting on a bench in a dugout at a softball field twenty years ago, I was caught off guard by a man who look disgusted when he found out that I attended a Baptist church. I had been saved less than a month and understood very little about the differences in beliefs among those who…
Today, His Day
Gracious Abba, How blessed we are to arise on the first Sunday of a new year. You did not promise any of us that we would have the opportunity to advance into 2015. None of us were promised the health and ability to lift our heads off of last night’s pillows and to have clothes…
The Hand That Snatched You Steadies You
Hey, Mr Self-Reliant…Psssssttt, Ms. Born-To-Handle-Things…listen up because I have a word for you when the cracks in your capability are starting to appear. We can sometimes fall into the trap that God got things started on our behalf and then turned over the reins for us to carry it forth on our own from that…