Seems to me we should aspire to be post-resurrection Peters regarding faith in Christ but Doubting Thomases regarding faith in man’s institutions—which means poking fingers in the sides of both liberals and conservatives. ……Be salt, not sugar. Report sensational facts...
I’ve been mulling over JD’ Walt’s comments in the seedbed Wake Up Call on YouTube 10/27/25 that if we feel burdened and joyless in Christian life, we aren’t doing it right. Even more-so, I think that applies to those in vocational ministry. In 2002, the year I started...
We had our summer of encouragement study group meeting yesterday. I’m praying it will turn into a new band. This morning I’m thinking about Joshua and Caleb and how disappointed they must have been with the adoption of the minority report and certainly with the...
File under “ I don’t think insurance covers that”: A couple of days after the storm I was attempting to comfort our distressed young male disabled crippled cat. He was not having it and started twisting in my arms. I suddenly realized that one claw of his...
One spring day I was driving home from work and had been considering Moses and the burning bush, the manifestation of God’s glory. I looked ahead to a section of road and saw the glint of afternoon sun shining through the leaves of a red oak and felt the...
“We put so much stock in our own felt experience of the grace of God that we lose touch with the actual fact of the grace of God. It is not our feelings that save us. It is the facts and our faith therein. It is the ephemeral up-and-down nature of our feelings...
