The Source of Bounding Joy

The Source of Bounding Joy

By four years of age, children have absorbed millions of bits of information telling them about the world and their place in it. Dr. James Dobson, of ‘Focus on the Family,’ has stated that children are the best receivers of information and the worst interpreters of...
Pressed down, shaken together, brimming over

Pressed down, shaken together, brimming over

No matter one’s taste in music, the list of love songs is near endless. Sometimes a celebration of found love, sometimes expressing an ache to be loved, sometimes exposing the searing pain of heartbreak. And because God is love, each of these songs can be compared or...
War and Peace

War and Peace

The human body, by design, is a happily-running, perfectly-oiled, machine. It is not innate in its creation to bear the multi-faceted burden of sin and death. Those two things alone place terrible stress on each of a body’s functions. When serious conflict, be it...
To run, to stretch, to laugh

To run, to stretch, to laugh

And on that day when my strength is failing The end draws near and my time has come Still my soul will sing your praise unending 10,000 years and then forevermore. From ‘10,000 Reasons’ by Matt Redman For children of my era, miracles happened on a daily basis. We...
Kudos where kudos are due

Kudos where kudos are due

I wish you could have met her. She was special. It was at Hildegarde United Baptist Church that she intersected with my young life as my Sunday School teacher several years in a row. I never thought of her having a life between Sundays. She only was real to me once a...