What Love is This?

What Love is This?

2 million/year! Can you believe that? 2 million! That’s 2,000,000! We’re talking about weddings in the US. That’s 4 million people per year who, being in love, choose to spend the rest of their lives together. Many of these lovebirds include Scripture as part of their...
Drum roll, please!

Drum roll, please!

Nearly four years ago now, the whole world was sent reeling from the intrusion of a silent invader. Daily activities came grinding to a corresponding, silent halt. Populations stopped still in their tracks and stared blankly in an effort to take in what was occurring...
The ‘immeasurably more’ part

The ‘immeasurably more’ part

Imagine this scenario: You’ve been job searching and have been contacted by an agency representing an important employer. You’ve been asked if you would be willing to fill out an online personal survey. If yes, you would be emailed a link to the survey, at which...
 Joy, Joy, Joy!

 Joy, Joy, Joy!

We’re tooling right along to year’s end and it’s about this time we start seeing magazine articles remembering all those we’ve ‘lost’ in the past twelve months. Looking further back, it is truly amazing all the ‘things’ we’ve lost, too. We no longer unfold road maps....
A Gift that Fits Every Time

A Gift that Fits Every Time

Just imagine how many things we regret and worry over in a lifetime! Things we did which we shouldn’t have done, things we didn’t do which we should have done. Things we said which we shouldn’t have said, things we didn’t say which we should have said. Rumors we fell...
Getting our Souls in Sync

Getting our Souls in Sync

I’ve heard non-morning people quip: “I wasn’t aware there was a 9 AM.” These folks don’t cheerily welcome the dawn. Their metabolism doesn’t even have a gear to engage until well after a hot shower and a jolt of caffeine. Some must be approached warily to judge their...
Way better than good!

Way better than good!

Our society is in a season of weeping and wailing and gnashing its teeth at God. He’s mightily fallen out of favor because of His perfection, His ownership of absolute truth, His being so audacious as to declare that even His love is irreproachable! Wiggle room? Nope....
The Christian Life – 101

The Christian Life – 101

People often bemoan the seeming disappearance of handymen, trades people, artisans, true craftsmen, etc. For my part, not meaning to boast, but I, with my skill set, do my utmost to keep them afloat (if the invoices for said valuable persons are any indication). If an...
Before and After

Before and After

In recent years there have been phenomenal stories of rescue: from the sea, a mine, a tunnel in the mountain, a cave system, a mountainside, a war hostage situation. Each of these represents hours or weeks or even months of nail-biting anxiety as rescue efforts face...
The hope found in communion!

The hope found in communion!

Tomorrow, we begin the four-Sunday journey of Advent, setting aside our day-in, day-out glut of interests and intrigues, dramas and joys, and dusting off, once more, our longing for the coming of the Messiah. I say dusting off because in the other eleven months of the...