For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.” (IS 41.13) It is the Lord Jesus Christ himself who holds your right hand, if you’re a believer. He tells us three times as if to pound it into [...]
Continue reading...14 September 2009
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center estimates that there are 10 to the 21st power number of stars in space. That’s a 10 with 21 zeros following it. They can only estimate because the Hubble telescope can’t see all the stars that exist. Depending on who you read, within the part of the universe we can [...]
Continue reading...22 July 2009
Sometimes discovering God’s will seems like searching for the Holy Grail. We pray. We get counsel. We ponder, draw mind maps, write pros and cons, and are still unsure. Afraid we’ll make a wrong turn, we sit in the car in life’s driveway, paralyzed by indecision. Good thing Proverbs 3:5-6 is taped to the visor: [...]
Continue reading...24 June 2009
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me (PS 23.4). In college I watched the movie Wait Until Dark, a spine-tingler about a blind woman terrorized in her home by a murderer. In [...]
Continue reading...18 May 2009
Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them, a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for [...]
Continue reading...8 April 2009
She hung her head in shame as she made her way toward the offering box, hoping no one would notice her. The temple treasury was crowded with richly robed people, and she was embarrassed at her own pitiful rags. The wealthy worshipers were dropping huge offerings in the box, and onlookers jaws were dropping at [...]
Continue reading...4 December 2008
How would you respond if someone you knew prayed like this: Lord, if you give me that sweet job in marketing, and hook me up with a new car with sweet rims, and let me get married, and let me live a long, prosperous, and mostly happy life, then I’ll follow you. My guess is [...]
Continue reading...15 July 2008
Sarah would have been 12 years old at the time. We had the privilege of watching her one week a month to help her single mom, Kathie, home school Sarah. Sarah and my daughter Beth had a love/hate relationship, being best friends yet mortal enemies at the same time. While Sarah and Beth quarreled over [...]
Continue reading...11 December 2007
She hung her head in shame as she made her way toward the offering box, hoping no one would notice her. The temple treasury was crowded with richly robed people, and she was embarrassed at her own pitiful rags. The wealthy worshipers were dropping huge offerings in the box, and onlookers jaws were dropping at [...]
Continue reading...7 December 2007
But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark (Genesis 8:1). It had been raining for 150 days and Noah & company were drifting on a featureless sea. For five dreary months they had been cooped up in the ark with no word from God. [...]
Continue reading...
21 September 2009
13 Comments