Month: March 2019
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God? I’ve got this!
One of the funny stories in our family regards the emerging independence of my youngest daughter. When she was a toddler and we were getting ready to go out to play on a snowy day, we found her crying in frustration on the porch. She had her coat upside down and backwards, her feet in […]
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Let’s Make Our Dad Glad
The man, who obviously loves his kids, pulled to the side of the highway, fed up with the bickering and fighting in the backseat of the car. What parent has not come to one of those exasperating moments when they wonder who these children are that they have brought on the earth? Of course, I […]
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Let’s Walk Together
Though I am not much for physical exercise, I have good memories of evening walks with my wife. After dinner, she would insist that I put on my walking shoes. As we meandered through our neighborhood, often holding hands, we talked about the day, our children, our church. We wondered about the future. (Oh, how […]
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God, break my heart!
From my privileged place, in my comfortable warm home where the water is clean and plentiful, the food rich and nourishing, in my social position which enjoys an abundance of friends and family- it quite easy to close my eyes to suffering. The plight of that widow in Uganda who is trying to raise five […]
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A great start for a new week
Thinking that life would be better – “If only I …” had a different job, were as smart as she is, lived in the city – is a thought that we all think, sometime, isn’t it? Following closely behind those thoughts are ones that tend to a sin that is subtle but destructive. What is […]
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Ashamed and Alone
We are all familiar with two powerful emotions – guilt and shame. Guilt serves us well when we do wrong because it motivates us to seek change, to make things right. Shame, on the other hand, is generally a terribly destructive emotion that causes us to hide, to feel worthless. It can become a root […]
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He Lies!
We all deal with those sales calls that plague us. Most of us hang up, but on occasion I engage the person who is doing the call. I find it fascinating to observe how the best of them will they bait their hook and then manipulate words to attempt to draw me into some scheme […]
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Loving
God brought Bev and me together, taught us about love, and gave us 42 years before taking her home. Was our marriage heaven on earth? No. We had our fair share of disappointments and difference. But, we were instructed by the Word, led by the Spirit, and found grace to become the best of friends […]
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The Sacred Trust
Even in my 6th decade of life, a full 10 years after my father’s voice was stilled by death, I feel the weight of his words that laid a sense of family, legacy, and responsibility on me from my earliest years. He instilled the truth in me that life is a sacred trust. He taught […]
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A Statement We Cannot Ignore
On this Monday morning, let’s go back to a familiar line in the Scripture – “In the beginning, God created …” (Genesis 1:1) We cannot over-estimate the importance of those five words for our understanding, words that will give us hope, purpose, and meaning in a confused, disorderly world. Have you forgotten these words or […]
CoffeeBreak With The Word 