Christmas Lights (Or, “How I Found Perspective Because My Son Really Had to Pee”) My son really had to pee. We’d been driving for an ...
An angel of the Lord appeared to [Zechariah], standing to the right of the altar of incense. (Luke 1:11) Every detail matters in Scripture. Here, ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Philemon GOD REVEALS HIS BLESSINGS THROUGH COMMUNITY And I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Titus 3 GOD MADE YOU AN ETERNAL HEIR He saved us, not because of works done by us in ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Timothy 2 JESUS IS YOUR FIRM FOUNDATION But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Timothy 1 JESUS IS FAITHFUL THROUGH GENERATIONS I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 79 GOD SAVES YOU FOR HIS GLORY Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 6 GOD WANTS TO BE GENEROUS WITH YOU As for the rich in this present age, charge ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart From 1 Timothy 5 GOD WILL MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE YOUR REWARD The sins of some people are conspicuous, going ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 4 GOD CREATED GOOD THINGS FOR YOU For everything created by God is good, and nothing is ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 3 YOU ARE PART OF THE FOUNDATION But if I should be delayed, I have written so ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 2 JESUS IS YOUR PERFECT PATH TO GOD For there is one God, and there is one ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 78 YOUR FATHER WANTS YOU TO COME HOME Their heart was not steadfast toward Him; they were not ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 1 JESUS IS YOUR OVERFLOWING GRACE And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the ...
Words are my favorite toys. I love to play with them, to alter and rearrange them; to find creative ways to use them to produce or discover something interesting. Sometimes it doesn’t take that much. Consider the change two little letters (or just one if you’re a bad speller) makes …
TOPICS: amazed, amused, church, encouragement, Luke, Matthew, perspective
It’s two weeks in to January, and already I imagine the gyms and fitness centers are starting to thin out from their post-holiday rush. A few million people have probably “cheated just a little” on that diet they committed to. Days of reading have been skipped, cigarettes lit “just one …
TOPICS: chances, changes, new years resolutions, perspective, time management
I haven’t looked at the sky all day. Focused so much on my busyness and the mechanics of my own problems, I forget to focus on what really matters… Looking up. Drinking in the beauty of God’s world around me. Enjoying life by the moment, by the drop. Lord, help …
TOPICS: caution, life, perspective, prayers
Ever feel like you’re just fighting to hang on, like each day is a battle? “The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, 44,760, able to go to war. They waged war against the …
TOPICS: 1 Chronicles, battle, perspective, protection, struggle, surrender, trials
One of my aunts swears she remembers being born. “I remember darkness and warmth, and all of a sudden this bright light and loud noise… It was horrible!” I love hearing her tell the whole story because she tells it so well, and of course, she tells it tongue-in-cheek. Nobody …
TOPICS: birthdays, born, humanity, image, perspective
I am thankful for mornings that I wake up with an aching back. They remind me of all the other mornings that I don’t. I am thankful for days when the sky is dark and gloomy. They remind me that it’s usually bright and sunny. I am thankful for days …
TOPICS: gratefulness, perspective, thankfulness, Thanksgiving
Like dandelion spores float in the summer breeze, she danced with an easy, effortless grace. As the music swelled and the people sang, her hair flowed in cascades around her weaving form, the smile on her face like sparkles of sunlight reflected in a stream… joy, unbridled, open, free. The …
TOPICS: dancing, perspective, singing, worship
I’m sitting in a straight-back chair with a fastened safety belt, 35,000 feet up on a hot summer day. All around me are clouds; the white, puffy, cotton-ball clouds that give young imaginations the best fodder you could ask for. I remember clouds like this from summer afternoons as a …
TOPICS: Observations, perspective
