Loving the Hostile
I was looking for a cd when the light turned green this morning and the man behind me was infuriated. He held his horn down long enough...
I was looking for a cd when the light turned green this morning and the man behind me was infuriated. He held his horn down long enough...
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Matt. 6:27 I can picture myself raising my hand slowly on that one. ...
A few friends with whom I get together every other week ask each other regularly for a “feelings check in”. Understandably, this sounds...
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the LORD directs his love, at...
“Nostalgia – a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s...
Most of my Christian life has been on a pendulum of swinging feelings: I feel close to God right now. I feel far away from God right...
Yesterday, Walter mentioned that bumper sticker that I actually see with some regularity. It has the word “coexist” written using all...
In junior high, I had to read The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson. It was a fascinating and inspiring story, for sure, and...
Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of...
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the...
Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own, but...
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the...
I was at a friend’s parents’ high rise condo the other day and the view was breathtaking. Looking down over the city of Atlanta with...
We’ve been at Lake Burton since Sunday, fully enjoying the last days of summer. It may have been the most mentally restful few days of...
So, as is becoming typical it seems, with the setting sun came a heart in panic. Terrell and I have just embarked on what may be yet...
If you are reading this in the midst of a normal day, feeling quite unemotional about life’s ups and downs at this moment, then for me to...
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:24-25...
If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the law was given to the people), why was...
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out....
I have not had anything to say about the Gospel in my days this week, but interestingly, I have had lots to say to others out of...