To be Fair: Agreeing with what is thought to be right or acceptable. :Treating people in a way that does not favor some over others. :Not to harsh or critical. This is the second in a series exploring the fairness of God. If you missed the first part of this series I recommend your read […]
Can We Be Thankful For Trials?
In less than a week it will be Thanksgiving, and after that we enter the mad rush of stress and radiance that is the holidays. Our facebook pages have been overrun with thankful postings as people contemplate what they hold valuable about their lives. The feast is being planned. The football game is being anticipated. […]
Is God Not Fair? Part 1: Why Me? Why Them? Why This?
I went in for an ultrasound the other day. It’s a routine exam I get every six months to check my liver for cancer. My liver is pretty compromised, stage four of four stages. My doc explained to me that the liver can sustain a great deal of damage and still function. Thankfully my liver has […]
It Is Well With My Soul
Imagine this story with me: You’re a successful business person, with a young family, five children in fact! You have invested well and you have confidence in your investments. You are so blessed and fortunate! God is so good! And then something happens… You are heavily invested in real estate, but all of a sudden there […]
A Man and A Message: The Last Sermon of Billy Graham
I was going to post something different today. I had it all ready to go. But it’s being pushed out till next week. I watched the program put out by Billy Graham. Did you? It’s being called his last message to the world. At 95 I suppose you can’t expect much more. As I watched […]
Happy Halloween? A Lesson in Fears and Idols. (And not the one you probably expect)
I’ve never understood Halloween. Oh I understood getting dressed up and going out to get candy just fine! But the darkness, the creepy, the scary movies, and the whole concept of “fear” being “fun”, no, I didn’t understand that. Now of course, I was a rather tender child. I didn’t like scary movies, I hated […]
Never to Late, Never to Far, Never Beyond God’s Arms.
Do you feel you are to far from God’s Grace? Many feel their sin is just to big, or maybe that it has just been to long, they are who they are now and that simply can’t be changed. Is it true? What are the limits to God’s Grace? There is a parable that Jesus […]
He Finished the Race – dedicated in memory of Andrew Rundle
A young man in my community passed away this morning. I didn’t really know him, though I may have met him at some point seeing as we had several friends in common and ran in some of the same circles. I’ve been following his journey through social media for a few months and now at […]
New and Old Wine and Wineskins
Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus answered […]
Testify to Grace
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Has the LORD redeemed you? Then speak out! Psalm 107:1-2a We’ve all messed up. It’s one of those universal facts of life. We’ve had moments, or even whole seasons, in life in which looking back on we can only say that […]