How the truths of Scripture change the way I live
Why do we remember the things we should forget and forget the things we should remember? We can coddle offenses, abrasive remarks, slights, and snubs…remembering their perpetrators for decades…while we forget the innumerable transgressions we ourselves have been forgiven? Maybe you don’t; I do. When you grow up in church, there are things you tend […]
“What we proclaim is not ourselves but Jesus Christ.” Paul said this, a long time ago. Times have changed. Now there’s Facebook and Google+. There are endless blogs and social twitter to sustain the soul’s endless craving for attention. We all want to matter, to someone. And now all the world can know what I […]
Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast! I Cor.5:7-8 The good thing about a study in grace is that as it unfolds (and you realize with a sinking feeling how not-gracious you are) there is grace to repent and to be forgiven and to value grace all the more. […]
Do you travel light? I don’t; though it is an ideal I have crept toward over the years. To be able to travel light shines as an ideal only because I know what it is to travel HEAVY. When the babies were young and airlines used to let them fly free under 2 years […]
The best part of a bad dream is when you open your eyes, and you’re home–safe and snug in your bed, untouched by the perils you dreamt of. Whew! I had a particularly harrowing ride in the wee hours the other morning. I hung on to the side of a monstrously big truck, squeezing by, […]