by Don Freeman | Apr 25, 2023 | Blog
All aspects of Creation were declared by God to be good. But when man inhaled God’s breath for the very first time, God declared him to be very good. Those two words, ‘very good’ spoken by the Creator of the Universe weigh a tad more than, say, my declaration of ‘very...
by Don Freeman | Apr 22, 2023 | Blog
Raise your hand if you read all the way through the 50 pages of conditions and excuses before clicking the little boxed ‘x’ on the screen. Ditto, if you understand the pharmaceutical ad on TV when the announcer rattles off the 600-word essay in a blistering 8 seconds....
by Don Freeman | Apr 20, 2023 | Blog
A writer once made this revealing statement: ‘Every front-sided strength has a back-sided weakness.’ I’ve come to understand this more and more over the many years since, that our admiration/envy? for someone’s strengths can obscure their less admirable traits. I...
by Don Freeman | Apr 18, 2023 | Blog
As Jesus and the disciples were entering Bethany, a longtime friend, Martha, saw Jesus and spontaneously invited him and his disciples to her home for dinner. Once at the house, Martha’s sister, Mary, came down from the roof, where she was sewing, to see what the...
by Don Freeman | Apr 15, 2023 | Blog
Once lights are out and I’m under the covers, head nestled comfortably on the pillow, it begins. Eight hours sometimes made up of the weirdest, wackiest situations. Sometimes there are people I know in them, but they are never found in the context I know them when...
by Don Freeman | Apr 13, 2023 | Blog
Past. Present. Future. Three basic verb tenses we use every day, largely without consciously thinking of the one we’ve chosen. If speaking in a newly acquired language however, we are often arduously conscious each time we come to a verb that needs to be conjugated...
by Don Freeman | Apr 11, 2023 | Blog
June 6, 1944 was a terrible, and costly, Allied invasion on the coast of France, with over 9,000 casualties. Despite the cost, it is considered the beginning of the end, the turning point of World War II. Many battles followed, with each Allied Forces win pushing back...
by Don Freeman | Apr 8, 2023 | Blog
Holy Saturday. The day after Holy Friday. The second of three momentous days. After the frenzied, high drama of the past several days, a day of stillness. A day of near silence, even in the Scriptures. But not a day without reactions certainly, and wildly differing...
by Don Freeman | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog
A Maundy Thursday scenario: It is a day of unparalleled heart heaviness for Jesus. He’s embraced his dearest friends, Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, weeping with them, for the final time. Re-entering Jerusalem, he’s greeted by a foreboding silence, the then-rejoicing,...
by Don Freeman | Apr 4, 2023 | Blog
It’s known throughout Christendom as Holy Week, with many branches of the church holding daily services to mark the final days of our Redeemer’s life on earth. To Jesus, though, it is Finals Week. The final visit to the temple has been made with chaos reigning and...
