I’ve heard it said, “Home is where your mother is,” and I do think it’s true. People usually refer to the place their parents are as “home.” When you don’t have your parents anymore and you are essentially an orphan, you can feel somewhat unmoored, like some stability that you had is gone, and it …
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Do Not Fear, Only Believe
“Do not fear, only believe.” Jesus said these words after He heard that the little girl He was on the way to heal, had died. I wonder if in that statement, He was reiterating the words of the Psalm that said, “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear …
Evidence of You
We live in a universe of order. From human bodies to heavenly bodies, things don’t just arrange themselves. When you move toward increased complexity, things are not more random but more ordered. If we threw the letters of the alphabet up in the air and let them fall, they would not likely come down in …
All the Credit: A Grandmother’s Legacy
Today is my grandmother’s birthday. She passed away in 2007, but her memory is cherished, and her impact is felt to this day. The last entry in my book, Life By The Way, gives a snapshot of her life of humility, service, and love for her family. She raised six children almost single-handedly, as her …
Easy and Light
Have you ever seen a yoke used for plowing? There are two holes for two animals. Typically, an experienced animal will be paired with a less experienced one, and the two must work together. Jesus says His yoke is easy and His burden is light. We have work to do and burdens to bear in this life, …
Transaction or Interaction?
I was ready for the day. I had done all the various things to be “presentable” – hair, makeup, clothing. I had quite a few perfunctory errands to run and was about to head out the door. The thought occurred to me that I had taken a lot of care in the “getting ready,” but …
Be Prepared
Be prepared. It’s the Boy Scout motto. So much of life is about the preparation. It is often the difference between success and failure. Even in something as simple as preparing a meal – the organizing, buying ingredients, cutting, chopping, peeling, mixing – all done before you get to the actual cooking. In a career- the education, the …
Jesus Is Our Amen
Jesus Is Our Amen “All the promises of God find their yes in Him” (2 Corinthians 1:20). Jesus is the one who fulfills all the promises of God. In Revelation 3:14, when giving instructions for writing to the church at Laodicea, Jesus says of Himself, “The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, …
The More You Know
The more you know His Word, the more you know His Will. That phrase came to me recently as I was pondering some decisions about the future. All of us who follow Christ have probably prayed for specific direction about a big decision we needed to make. Maybe we have operated with the assumption that …
A Matter of Inches
Inches That Changed Everything Recent events have left me, like many of you, heartbroken and pondering where we are in our society. I was thinking about how in many ways, life comes down to inches, minutes, or even fractions of seconds. A bullet can merely graze the flesh, or penetrate the tissue of life- inches. …
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