In the information age, we want answers. The demand for information is insatiable, and we seem to want, and in many cases can get, almost instant access to news and other details about a situation, even if the news is just beginning to break. If facts are not forthcoming in a timely manner on a …
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Little Bird
Little Bird I had an object lesson at Home Depot the other day. At the entrance, I pulled out a cart (or buggy, as we say in the South), from a string of carts, and immediately a whooshing sound startled me. A small bird flew out from behind the carts toward the huge electric entrance …
Live Out Love
“I will show you a still more excellent way” (1 Corinthians 12:31). If you have trusted in Christ, then you are a part of his Body. Like our physical bodies, this Body has many parts, but all function together, each doing its job. If one member suffers, all suffer together. This is easy to understand …
Parent or Guardian Required
Forms are a part of life, beginning in childhood. I remember all the school and medical forms of various kinds which had to be signed “by parent or guardian.” I think being adopted must have made me more sensitive to the distinction between parent and guardian, and I remember the feeling of discomfort that some …
Worship
Many great thinkers through the ages have said the following in various iterations: “Something must be worshipped.” Something will be worshipped. It will either be the Sacred or the secular. It will either be the Creator or the creation. It will either be the Savior or the State. Something will be worshipped. Something will be at …
Speak Truth
Always seek to speak the truth, especially to yourself. I once knew a girl who sang on a praise team – she said when she first started singing, she wasn’t even sure if she believed the words. But the more she sang the truth, the words with the power to transform, the more she started to believe …
The Cross is Life
I was recently a “helper” at my church for a preschool graduation. As the small students processed in and out of the worship center, they passed by me at the door. I was standing beside a large, beautiful wooden cross that gets moved around our building as needed. As one little boy passed by, he …
The Better Thing (Real Life)
There’s a danger in watching too much HGTV. The problem is, no matter how satisfied you might be at the time, after you see all the “new” things and improvements to houses, you may feel that your home needs an upgrade too. Seeing the latest and greatest can make you crave what you don’t have. …
He Chose to be a Carpenter
Lent and Advent are seasons of contemplation, perhaps more than any others. While during Lent, we focus on Holy Week, and all things leading to the cross, I have found myself musing on the life of Jesus before his years of formal ministry. He did not choose to come as an earthly king or military …
A Long Way Off
Don’t you love it when you read a passage of Scripture and something jumps out at you that you had not noticed before? Sometimes it may be the Holy Spirit giving you that insight or it might be simply your own mind discerning more of the richness of Scripture, but either way it is a …
Life By The Way 