Chosen?

Chosen?

After listening to Pastor Don’s sermon this week, about Peter’s shame after denying Christ three times, I started contemplating Matthew, chapter one, which gives account of the genealogy of Christ, and some of the Old Testament stories reflected within that lineage....
Beautiful Blessed Silent Saturday 

Beautiful Blessed Silent Saturday 

“For God alone my soul waits in silence.  From Him comes my salvation.  He is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken” Ps 62:1&2 ESV    After Jesus was captured, crucified and buried in the tomb, can you imagine...
Ducks all in a row

Ducks all in a row

Dominoes was a popular game at our house, first double sixes, then double twelves, then colored-pip double twelves. Somehow along the way, I heard about standing the tiles on end, one after the other, then knocking the first one into the second, and watching the whole...
WITH OUT

WITH OUT

There is no heartache without a home, no decision without a door; no destiny without discipline, no worship without awe. There is no courtyard without secrets, no window without a view, no smoke without fire of a story that is not true. There is no reward without...
Look what I can do!

Look what I can do!

There’s something I’ve noticed in my decades of non-parenting. And it’s been verified time after time by parents and grandparents alike. It’s this: toddlers are little energy packs, never still, always exulting in their next new experience (that is, until they hear...