“If you insist on asking questions but won’t listen to the answers that are offered, your reward will be frustration and anger; clarity, understanding, and peace will retreat from you like the wind.” But there is a better way Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good > . . … More How to Frustrate Your Personal Peace
Reading with the Pastor John 16 and Psalms 133-135 Travails in the Schoenleber family have kept me from posting anything new for more than a week but I hope it hasn’t kept you from reading with the pastor. Today we come to John 16 and Psalms 133-135. It is a good selection to be coupled … More Waking Up Angels
Filled with a knowledge of Scripture, this one sentence from Ann Voskamp’s blog post today (“What to hold on to when it feels like the world is hurting”) is worth contemplating, as is the whole post she offers the world today. There is faith that stands or falls on the truth that the future with … More Ann’s Words
Tuesday is for Reflection I was returning from a trip to Israel and had a six hour layover in Paris. It was a marvelous experience, life-changing for many of us including myself, and it was a shock after passing through customs to see on the monitors in baggage claim that Paris had once again been … More I Left Paris Just Hours Before the Carnage Began
Friday Thoughts You’ve heard the pundits. “This is a Christian nation” or, with equal fervor, “This is not and never was a Christian nation.” The reality? America was never a Christian nation—in any biblical sense. First, America is not a Christian country. It is a country with a veneer of Christianity. That Christian veneer was … More America Was Never a Christian Nation — not in any biblical sense anyway
Friday is for Heart Songs A Restful Friday Shrill the voice from beyond the trees Unseen but loud . “Out of there, get out of the flowers” And lifting my head I see him, the “old man” next door– head bowed, brown-backed and shuffle-footed, he humbly searches for other prey. Sniffing the freshly … More My Shuffle-footed Neighbor
Encouragement for the Soul Continuing to meditate on one of the texts from lasts week’s message and had some further thoughts. What will rescue us from the depressions and desperations of our situation? When children distance themselves from us of the Lord, what will keep our hearts at rest? You wife or husband is less than … More Beating Back Depression and Desperation
Friday is for Heart Songs Still waiting (will it ever end) on the sale of our house. I know others have waited far longer but after having three buyers back out at the last moment, this one seems to be taking unreasonably long. Our original closing date was April 22! Hold ups with the appraisal. … More Spoiled with First-World Problems
Weekend Musings “Every choice away from the will of God is a choice to diminish our joy in God. Any diminution of God’s law or application of of God’s word in our situation is always–no matter how reasonable it appears, no matter how pleasurable the immediate gratification, or how stress-reducing (for the moment), a movement … More Choosing Joy Over Sin
Many church planters are looking, or say they are looking for the “Man or Woman of Peace” to begin their penetration of a community with the gospel. Here’s a great place to start. See the link below. Required: Serving the Peace (The Shalom) of the City.
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