Yeah, I get anxious and I chew on my nails! Why exactly do so many people who are full of anxiety chew on the ends of their fingers? I do not have an answer for that question. There are plenty… Continue reading

Our Wednesday Bible Study has been working through a series of lessons about spiritual disciplines, the choices we make to open our lives to the inflow of the Spirit and to defeat sinfulness. In addition to the Scripture, our guide… Continue reading

Living in a time and nation where food of every kind is available in such abundance, I don’t feel as grateful as I should for the bread that I eat from day to day. The prayers I say before meals… Continue reading

The noblest impulse in us is so quickly compromised by selfish interest. What begins as the best intended plans to make a better world can easily be turned into a means of feeding the needs of the ego, of enriching… Continue reading

It’s good to be home! For 12 days, I enjoyed taking in splendid views from soaring mountains in Colorado. Worshipping with thousands of Believers at the Assemblies of God General Council in Denver last week left my heart full to… Continue reading

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For our present troubles are quite small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great glory that will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see right now; rather, we look… Continue reading

… and it’s all small stuff! Richard Carlson wrote a book using that title. I have not read it, but I think I should. Did you ever notice how quickly trivial matters take over in life, how much time we… Continue reading

I woke up today feeling incredibly wealthy. No, I didn’t win Mega-Millions. (That would be fun, wouldn’t it?) My retirement account has not grown very much, if at all, in this last quarter. My bank account is balanced, but certainly… Continue reading

Ben Franklin’s maxim about the inevitability of death and taxes could well be re-written to include a third inevitable experience in life: Conflict! It’s everywhere – politics, religion, church, school, local pub, homes, among friends. Surely there is a time… Continue reading