If satan had to ask to sift Peter, then he would have also had to ask permission of the sovereign God to sift Judas, as well, it seems. Peter endured the pain of his shame and lived to see himself restored when he encountered the Risen Christ. Judas, expecting a...
Gary Huff was 5 years older than me and he and Fran and Bill and I shared an era of coming of age that affected our generation significantly….. the 60s and 70s. Music, family life, education, the assassination of a president, the moon landing, and the Vietnam War....
(CBB-written in Jan 2016) There are some, I expect, who wonder why I, at 62, continue to explore new “vistas”, pursue new goals, and continue going after ministry activities and opportunities with passion and energy…..because that’s who...
“Bummer lambs”……..A lot of people feel that way in life and need the tender one-on-one care of The Good Shepherd to experience the feeling of being truly loved! I’ve often felt that God creates some of us with a profound depth of loneliness in our...
Sept 28,2020 Word for today from Ecclesiastes 7:10: “Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.” Keep your focus on today. Each day is a gift. Open it. Enjoy it. Be blessed by it. Be a blessing to someone else...
From Sept 28,2020…… what COVID is doing to some people….. What good does it do to continue in the body if one’s spirit and soul are strangled to death by isolation, anxiety, loss of the important relationships and activities of one’s life? Only those who are willing...
This is a testimony and significant part of the reason why I am so adamant about no smoking at Titus 2 or around my home. Written a couple of years ago, I have shared it a number of times with women in recovery. Kicking nicotine along with other chemical dependencies...
I observed some folks mentally applauding this meme: “If churches want to help people heal they need to become trauma-informed. Everything is not the devil.” As it garnered “likes” I thought to myself ( and posted): Who or what do you think was responsible for the...
Me: ( Mar 20,1997, exclaiming in early morning praise) “Surely, Lord, you have created the beauty of this world for your glory and my delight!” The Lord: (in a rather stunning, but gentle reply) “Tell others.” Me: “What am I to tell? To whom? How? Where? When?”...
I was looking at a family Facebook page of my grandmother’s Baxley family. Ludie Bell Baxley Greene….. in some ways I am very much like how I remember her….. loving the Lord and family and accepting of the Lord’s will and at some times when I laugh, I hear her...
