Recently, as part of a class in Christian Education basics, I had to do some reading on diversity. Over the several weeks that I was working on this class unit, I had considerable generalized discomfort that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Then, at the end of...
On Oct 12, 2005 I’d written about the three places in scripture where we clearly see sin reduced to three types- lust of the flesh (physical appetites), lust of the eyes (acquisitive desires for material goods or power), and pride of life (egotism, desiring...
Tonight I was preparing to teach a Sunday School lesson tomorrow. One resource I was reviewing had a series of Advent devotionals and one devotional opened with a reflection on doors, using as its imagery a picture montage of various doors from a city that was the...
One of the issues we revisit regularly in Depression Impact Group is the matter of suffering- why it is present, how we face it, consecrating it to God for His redemptive work through it, etc. Recently, I was struck with the fact that, in the New Jerusalem, the...
Tonight I’m watching an intriguing TV drama called “3 lbs”, about a neurosurgeon and the neurology team at a hospital. They are removing the tumor-ridden connecting neurons between the two hemispheres of a woman’s brain. In the story line,...
Tonight I was reading a newsletter from an intercessory prayer ministry that I’ve been a part of for over a decade. The executive director was writing about working with members of Congress over the last 28 years. One Christian congressman that he worked for and...
How Thanksgiving began as an official US holiday in 1863: (It’s a shame we’ve lost so much of the reason behind so much of what we do!)Proclamation of President Abraham LincolnThe year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings...
The disappointing results of the congressional elections means that now there will likely be even more conflict, controversy, and partisanship in the house and senate. That actually suits me just fine. I recall hearing a wise person comment on the state legislature in...
You must follow exactly the path that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you are to possess. Deuteronomy 5:33.Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my...
Every election cycle, in the last few days before the vote, I reach a point of fatigue with the whole thing that makes me want to scream. In recent years there has developed a practice of one side or the other releasing “gotcha” would-be scandal press...
