A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
Several years back, there was a truck commercial during the Super Bowl that absolutely left the room silent. We all seemed to zone in to listen as the late Paul Harvey told us why God made a farmer. It was brilliant. Some time later I thought it would be fun to try my own hand…
More often than not I hear the looseness of untethered minds, as their language lands in thuds upon unprotected ears. It seems that few care anymore for innocence and civility in our language. I know I will sound old fashioned, prudish, stuffy, and all the other stiff-shirted names, when I say that it shouldn’t be…
Their idols are silver and gold,The work of man’s hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak;They have eyes, but they cannot see; They have ears, but they cannot hear;They have noses, but they cannot smell; They have hands, but they cannot feel;They have feet, but they cannot walk;They cannot make a sound with their…
As I closed my Bible this morning the words passed through the channels of my thoughts, “ah, today will be good because I spent time in the Word.” I shook my head, and my inner voice spoke up, “no, that’s not how it works.” How easily that temptation still rises in me. The idea that…
As I read Psalm 23 this morning I stopped at verse one and wondered, what beyond David’s experience as a shepherd led him to call the Lord his Shepherd? Was there some reference in the Torah that gave him encouragement to do this? As I’ve heard the phrase, “law of first mention” many times, I…
Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart; There is no fear of God before his eyes. For it flatters him in his own eyes concerning the discovery of his iniquity and the hatred of it. Psalm 36:1-2 Transgression… an act of rebellion… sin; it speaks to us. It does not snarl.It does not scream,…
Free Bible Study – “Embracing Hope” Are you afraid to hope? Have disappointments so outweighed satisfaction in your life that you no longer look forward to tomorrow with any anticipation of good? I’m sorry. I hate that there are circumstances that make us feel that way. And I am going to step out on a…
“Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel on account of the unfaithfulness of the exiles gathered to me, and I sat appalled until the evening offering. But at the evening offering I arose from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I fell on my knees…
I couldn’t have been more than 7 years old. I looked out the window and saw a man kneeling in the grass on one side of our neighbor’s newly built home. There was something familiar about him. His white hair was covered in a hat, or I might have recognized sooner that the man mixing…
In our life group discussion last night I brought up how we pray for those who hurt us. I mentioned that I think it’s okay to ask God to “Get ’em” when they are continuously hurtful and mean spirited. It was asked, “So, is it okay to pray God’s wrath on people?” I didn’t have…