Everyone loves a trimmed hedge.” I don’t know where I ever heard that, but it has been with me for a long time. And I don’t know if it makes sense to anyone in the world but me, but to me it says, “Not many folks want to get out in the heat and trim […]
I know of no greater need for every person than to come to know God so intimately that we trust him implicitly. That’s my goal in life- to trust God for and with everything. Absolutely nothing held back. That’s my goal. And that my goal for you.
We’re involved in a series of lessons entitled “The Anatomy […]
The Lord is my real boss, and I shall not want.
He gives me peace, when chaos is all around me.
He gently reminds me to pray and do all things without murmuring and complaining.He reminds me that he is my source and not my job. He restores my sanity everyday and guides my decisions that I […]
A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go and visit their old university professor, now retired.
During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives.
Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large […]
What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn’t live without it?
What if we gave […]
There are certain assumptions upon which our understanding and perception is based. Such an assumption is called a “premise.” We all have them. However, we often don’t recognize ours as “assumptions.” To us, they are simply facts. We’ve been taught them all our lives and often, everyone in “our world” makes the same assumptions. That’s […]
Sometimes the Lord has a way of checking us out to see if we are “real” or not. He makes us answer the question, “Are you practicing what you’re preaching?”
I recently wrote an article for our church bulletin entitled “Freedom” in which I decried the loss of freedom to recite a prayer and read the […]
DYING TO SELFNote: The following piece came to me “author unknown.” It is not humorous, but is designed to cause us to reflect. I hope you appreciate the change of pace.
When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don’t sting and hurt with the insult or the oversight, but your […]
Most of us were required to study American history in earlier days and we read about the “firebrand of the American Revolution” - Patrick Henry, whose words, “Give me liberty or give me death” secured for him a permanent place in our country’s history.
But, do you know “the rest of the story?” Do you know […]
Some folks have a distorted idea about freedom.
A few years ago when I was in China, I had employed a Chinese college student as my interpreter. He was anxious to work with an American because it gave him the opportunity to practice his English. He was full of questions. After a few days we became […]