The importance of remembering is a theme carried throughout all of Scripture. It is not about static facts or rules or figures, but the mystery of a place, the significance of a person, the marking of lives.
For many years I have been convinced that the non-photo (or non-repro) pencil is a modern miracle of the industrial complex...It looks like an ordinary light-blue pencil, but it is not an ordinary light-blue pencil.
In that lush, tropical southeast Asian valley …yet, a valley of dry bones…God had breathed men to life.
Things have changed. The world will not be as it once was. We have less guarantees and more questions. From the cracks of our stone world something new will emerge...
To be together as a church will occasionally involve some danger, like how to do be together while also pursuing peace.
In Psalm 23, we are reminded that we have a good shepherd, and that shepherd is King Jesus. Yet, the shepherd does not lead simply for our joy, our desire, and our happiness...
Due to the pandemic, Linda and I have been confined at home for several weeks, while others have been home alone. Then, Easter Sunday, tornados left some of you without your homestead...
Being Sanctified In a Time of Global Pandemic
During this pandemic time of social distancing, I have discovered that I, too, have minimal governance. I find myself being more selfish, pausing at the end of each day and realizing...
All over the world, Christians are persecuted, opposed, regulated, silenced, and challenged. In every case, God’s people adapt, change, and flex in order to obey the Biblical imperative to worship God “in Spirit and in truth”.
Trusting and Desiring God's Will When Our Will is Frustrated
It is no small thing when our will for our lives is frustrated. It’s disorienting, even frightening...
