Protecting the Promises
For the last few years the Lord has blessed Rita and I with being able to vacation each Spring in Phoenix. Our first time here in 2015 was at a particularly low time in my life. I was deeply discouraged.…
A Dead Walking Stick
One of the unfortunate outcomes of living in the era of social media is the conclusion that God primarily uses and really blesses people with extraordinary talents. But that holds true only if the size of the church or ministry…
Just Hanging Out Kind of Friends
Rita's uncle Oris had farmed 300 plus acres of corn and soy beans outside of Dayton, Iowa, for most of his life. Farming being what it is uncle Oris had made life-long friends of the neighboring farmers. They shared farm…
Whatever It Takes
I know you have experienced the same thing. You can read whole passages of Scripture and have them be meaningful, but then, at a different time, have the Holy Spirit speak so powerfully in every turn of the narrative. That…
No Turning Back
Not trying to sound super spiritual here. But the Holy Spirit is speaking so strongly to me through the life of Abraham in Genesis. I can’t tell you how many times Genesis has been in my morning reading routine, but…
Right Before Glory
I hope you don’t mind the number of posts on Abram from Genesis recently. It’s just that God seems to be speaking to me so strongly through my Genesis readings right now that I can’t help but pass on to…
The Sin of Sodom?
Don’t assume that you know the answer. I thought I did and then was surprised when I did a little cross-referencing. I think we all assume, from what we have read in the Genesis 18-19 account of the twin OT…
Answers Aren’t Always the Answer
Just read an article that when disaffected young people were given the opportunity to explain, in their own words, why they left the church, they claimed it was because the church wasn’t offering cogent responses to the criticisms of science…