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  • Transforming love, daily grace, amazing change!

    Wednesdays I go to jail! Yep, I get locked up for about an hour each week. And I love it. It’s an opportunity to share the Word with about 15 people who can’t get to church, most of whom have… Continue reading

  • Today matters.

    It’s hard to convince a 25 year old that putting away $50 a week can add up to a significant amount. But if he does just that, assuming a 6% average return on his investment, he will have around $500,… Continue reading

  • Watch out for pragmatism

    A pragmatist makes decisions based on the practicality of the action. Does it work? Does it serve the purpose? Does it ‘get the job done?’ These questions are first line in the mind of the pragmatic individual. What’s wrong with… Continue reading

  • The Gift of Beauty

    While driving up the inter-state highway, I turned on my CD player. Beautiful music poured out of the speakers. God embraced me! I wish I could find words to describe the sense of His Presence, but it is indescribable. I… Continue reading

  • Confidence in the Lord

    There are always challenges in life! When we get through one set of problems, a new one comes along, or at least that is my experience. Our daughter called yesterday to update us on her life. She’s been a student… Continue reading

  • One of God’s great gifts

    Family! Pleasure, pain, comforting, aggravating – and so much more, right? A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of going with my Mom and Dad to a reunion of her family in Indiana. For a weekend I interacted with… Continue reading

  • Truly wise or merely sophisticated?

    There are people who are wise and there are people who are sophisticated – and they are not the same. Yesterday I greeted a boy I’ve known for several years. He is in the grip of adolescence and desperately works… Continue reading

  • Controlled by appetites

    Judges is one of the Bible’s more difficult books to fully understand! It tells the story of God’s people in an era when “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” The lack of strong leadership – political and… Continue reading

  • Holy things, holy places

    A situation in my life got me to thinking about holy stuff… you know, which are holy day? What are holy places and/or holy things? Who are holy people? The first thing I did was re-think the word – “holy.”… Continue reading

  • Puppets on a string?

    Driving home from a hospital visit with a suffering saint I had a long talk with the Lord about the questions that were nagging at the edges of my mind. The main one, “What are You doing, Lord?” There are… Continue reading