Oh, I know. You probably have debt. I do too. My name is currently on a mortgage. At different times in my life, I have had car loans, parent plus loans, and credit card debt as well. I have a heart for so many of our society’s young adults who are straddled with college loans. […]
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. (2 Peter 3:8) Anniversary of the phone call. On October 18, 1986 at 1:00, I received a phone call that my brother Dan had been in a motorcycle […]
You and I have lived 1,000 minutes over and over again. In his book, The 1000 Minute Principle HERE , Tom Evershed writes: Let’s start by supposing that you wake up in the morning at 0630 and go to sleep at 2310 [11 p.m.]. Looking at those times it’s not immediately obvious how much time […]
I was listening to a podcast With the Perrys and Preston Perry allowed my eyes to see something in a new way. Let me present two separate thoughts and then join them together. First, we are to share in the sufferings of Christ. Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has […]
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; (Hebrews 4:9) A few weeks ago I witnessed a discussion between adults about the concept of the spiritual discipline of rest. People shared ideas about going fishing every Friday, and crafting, and knitting. One person shared he and his wife were leaving that afternoon […]
You can’t stare at the sun without damaging your eyes, but you can stare at the moon for hours. And when you do, the moon is actually allowing you to enjoy the sun’s light that’s not safe to look at directly. In fact, all the moon’s light is borrowed. (The Last Supper on the Moon, […]
I saw this post on Instagram six weeks ago and still can’t get it off my mind. It has been fact-checked. Enjoy. In 1912, John Harper, a 39-year-old evangelist, was on the Titanic, to travel to the Moody Church in Chicago. However, the journey took an unexpected turn when the ship struck an iceberg and […]
Last week I posted about a portion of Psalm 103 HERE that struck me about the brevity of life compared to eternity. This week I thought about the verses more deeply. AN EXCERPT FROM LAST WEEK… 15The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; 16the wind blows over […]
I read Psalm 103 recently. It is beautiful and worth reading slowly. A book could be written about each verse! In my most recent read, however, two bits of this psalm jumped off the page and into my heart. So much so, that I have been talking about them and pondering them as I drive […]
It’s August 25, the last Sunday of this summer. Summer’s been hot! Many of us are looking forward to the first morning when we step outside and smell it — you know what I mean — when we smell the first hint of fall in the air! It disappears as quickly as it arrives, but […]
