Articles featuring books from which I’ve gleaned valuable truths
The grands came out to spend the day this weekend. Inevitably we found water to play in, even if it’s really too cold to be playing in water. Of course there were many admonitions about ‘don’t get your feet wet’ but actually they thought they would like to take their shoes off and really get […]
I have a lot of head-knowledge about God. I’ve read His Word all my life. Once-upon-a-lifetime before marriage and family I even earned a Bachelor in Biblical Studies; I learned some Greek, picked my way through the ins and outs of Biblical exegesis, worked my way through most of the books in the Bible with […]
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? These words jumped from their immediate context (I Cor.6:19) to arrest my thoughts one day not too long ago and their significance keeps echoing in my heart… Have I fathomed this? The eternal, […]
If you’ve been following my Ponderings for long you know I’m a lover of the Word of God. It is a treasure to me. I read it, savor it, and commend it to you. [See Bible Reading Plans on the side pullout menu for more info] I aim to make it a priority in my […]
I did a bit of reading on our road trip—just a few morsels from an old book titled Disciplined By Grace: Studies in Christian Conduct (by J.F.Strombeck,1947). I was intrigued by the authors’ thesis. He contends that “all teaching of righteous living, to be effective, must not be grounded in law, but in grace. Any […]