Taking a closer look at great people and themes of Scripture
The boxes of necessities are unpacked. The furniture is placed. Best of all I’ve found a place to nestle in for morning quiet times and I’m settling back into the Bible reading plan I had suspended during our recent move. I started reading this way, several chapters a day drawn from all throughout the Bible, […]
I have stones all about the house—stones that remind me of other places and times. Some are pretty and glinting with fool’s gold or the sparkle of quartz. Others have names and dates penciled on their bases. But must are smooth and plain and their origins have been long forgotten. But I do like to […]
There was an intriguing quote given in Sunday’s sermon, the tongue-in -cheek musings of a now-retired pastor. It’s my guess it was born out of a certain amount of frustration with the work of pastoring: Three Dollars Worth of God I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.Not enough to explode my soul […]
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 […]
What exactly is godliness? How do we exercise it? The term “godliness” occurs repeatedly in Paul’s letters to Timothy but is never once defined there. So I’ve been scouring dictionaries and this is what I’ve found. The word is eusebeia, from the joining of eu- ‘good’, well-done’ with sebo- ‘to revere or worship, to be […]