I’m ready for a change of season. Snow is beautiful. But it gets old. And I grow impatient for something new–a pussy willow, a green shoot, something to show that we are not stuck in eternal winter. Now that the calendar page has flipped out of winter I am wooed by memories of forsythia blooms […]
When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the LORD was merciful. It is I, the LORD, who makes you holy. It was I who rescued you from Egypt, that I might be your very own […]
Who may climb the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place? Only those whose hands and hearts are pure, who do not worship idols and never tell lies.—No one who has a defect may come near to me…his physical defects disqualify him from presenting offerings to the LORD.—“None is righteous, no, […]
“Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy, ‘Do you hear what I hear? A song, a song, high above the trees with a voice as big as the sea…’ What exactly do people hear when the gospel is presented to them for the first time? I guess it all depends on whether God has […]
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it […]