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Control And Humility!
Posted on April 13, 2025 Leave a Comment
April 13, 2025, Palm Sunday Control And Humility! Most of us want to be in control of our life…and sometimes we want to be in control of the lives of other people. I wonder if much of what happens in abusive family relationships, oppressive work environments, and in high-level political arenas is mostly about control…controlling […]
Salvation And Transformation!
Posted on April 10, 2025 Leave a Comment
April 10, 2025 Salvation And Transformation! There have been times when I have felt helpless to change something in me. Sometimes it is an attitude towards another person. Sometimes it is a behavior I can’t quite modify. Sometimes it is a downward spiral of self-defeating thinking. I want things to be different, I want to […]
Savior And Lord!
Posted on April 3, 2025 Leave a Comment
April 3, 2025 Savior And Lord! A friend accepted or acknowledged or adopted Jesus as His Savior when he was a young boy. He reads his Bible, listens to Christian books, and tunes in to a variety of Christian teaching programs. He loves Jesus and trusts that Jesus is with him now and has reserved […]
Heaven And Worship!
Posted on March 27, 2025 Leave a Comment
March 27, 2025 Heaven And Worship! We all want heaven! We want heaven in eternity and we want heaven, at least in part, on earth. When heaven seems particularly remote in our life now, we often cry out, “Life is not fair!” A miscarriage, a nasty divorce, or the loss of job can cause us […]
Healing And Helping!
Posted on March 20, 2025 Leave a Comment
March 20, 2025 Healing And Helping! I was sick with a sinus cold for three weeks in February. You know how it goes; sinus congestion so tight you blow your nose constantly, upper chest congestion that makes it difficult to swallow, a stabbing ear-ache that takes you to your knees, a continual cough that leaves […]
Faith And Works!
Posted on March 13, 2025 Leave a Comment
March 13, 2025 Faith And Works! Like the Apostle Paul, we are grateful that our new life with Jesus, our new love for Jesus, and our new salvation through Jesus are by faith alone. We do our best to focus upon our trust and acceptance and belief as a response to God’s grace and the […]
Grace And Accountability!
Posted on March 6, 2025 Leave a Comment
March 6, 2025 Grace And Accountability! We want another chance…a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance. We request some slack, we ask for some leniency, we beg for patience. We want…sometimes almost demand…forgiveness! We convince ourselves we are deserving of God’s grace. Either we believe we are good enough that we deserve grace, […]
Forgiveness And Surrender!
Posted on March 5, 2025 Leave a Comment
March 5, 2025 Forgiveness And Surrender! Today is traditionally called, “Ash Wednesday.” The day marks the start of the 40-day countdown leading up to Easter. During the 40 days, there is a remembering of the life, death, and coming back to life of our Savior, Jesus. More specifically, the 40-day season is set aside to […]
Why Can’t We Just Go Home?
Posted on February 27, 2025 Leave a Comment
February 27 Why Can’t We Just Go Home? The defeated and discouraged voice of the young child in the back seat finally gives up on the family trip with words all too familiar; “Why can’t we just go home!” There has been 225 miles of complaints, 225 miles of grumbling, 225 miles of griping. When […]
Are We There Yet?
Posted on February 20, 2025 Leave a Comment
February 20 Are We There Yet? Sometimes I don’t have much tolerance for continual complaining and criticizing. I can grow quickly impatient with constant negativity and pessimism as well as griping and grumbling. I don’t know how Moses handled 40 years of complaining by the Israelite people. They complained there was not enough water to […]
Take Delight 