“Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.” To what is the Psalmist directing our attention in Psalm 8:2? Anyone with the capacity for compassion and interest in the...
Pastor Craig Carter in his sermon on Sunday used a word I have also come to use in referring to our church campus and all church campuses….”outpost.” As a new year has begun, it and the circumstances of recent weeks have aided in a review of our...
“When the church takes seriously its call to facilitate healing and life transformation as the Body of Christ, the world will be a different place…… one person at the time. We must reclaim a holistic view of what “abundant living” can be and help people achieve...
Friday, January 20, 2023, January 20th, 7:13 a.m. after an emerging family crisis had become known to a young mother and me.) :Correspondence from Cathy Byrd to a Christian friend- “Good morning, I am humbled by your family’s kind response to my...
From my journal on this day 2014… Most of the time the things one fears the most fail to materialize. And the ways in which one anticipates obstacles simply fail to appear. Thank God that He runs before us more than we can ever realize and clears the path for us...
Have you considered that family and friends are “first responders” in relational abuse and violence generally? Healthcare providers and clergy are often the next line of contact to detect, educate, counsel or refer the abuser and the victim. By the time...
I heard a sermon this week on the parable of the unfruitful fig tree. But for all my effort I cannot remember where or from whom I heard it. The message focused on the gardener’s appeal to the master who had told the gardener to cut it down for having borne...
From 1/15/2012: “A brief down day…truly Sabbath rest….no papers due, no books to be read, no tasks that must be done before Monday morning. (Although I really should be working in our yard! It’s been so long since I did yard work, it’s...
From 1/15/2015 “Because any day could be the last……. “But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.” 1 Peter 4:7 G. Campbell Morgan: “I never lay my head on the pillow without thinking that...
From 1/15/2020 I have called our current circumstances “living among the death throes of the enemy who thrashes about like a snake whose head has been separated from the body…..” He’s dead…. just hasn’t realized it yet. ...
