I started my blog for this week….yesterday. I’ve been wrestling with just stopping mid-stream and starting over, BUT, I have a P.S. to add to last week’s entry. So, I’ll save what’s done; stop; start again with what is…
Yesterday was our 40th anniversary. What a great day of memory making! We’ve saved for some time, and finally bought an anniversary gift for ourselves that’s serviceable, but fun, too: a Polaris Ranger. Daily, Bay uses it for working…
“Follow,” that’s what Jesus had said to me last May, when I retired from my position at Arizona Christian. It’s just one word. It sounds simple. When someone says, “follow,” you follow. It doesn’t get any harder than that.…
I have walked sandy beaches all my life. I practically grew up on a beach. The Lord has always used a beach to blow away the cobwebs in my brain, and clear out the spiritual wax in my ears. …
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed (also translated, grieved) by various trials. 1 Peter 1:6 Trials. Don’t like them. Don’t want them. I’ve certainly had my share…
In this you greatly rejoice… 1 Peter 1:6a (emphasis mine) I just can’t get over the word, this. To be able to rejoice the way the word is really defined, there has to be a full understanding of the…
Matthew 28:9 And behold, Jesus met them and said, “ Greetings!” And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. As I sat in church yesterday, reading the story of the Resurrection of Jesus, once…
REJOICE! He’s ALIVE! Several weeks ago, I had a conversation with my little grandson, Ethan. We’d spent the weekend together, and as I was driving him home, I was curious how much he understood the “Holyday” that was coming…
It’s Saturday. I’m trying to imagine what it must have been like for the disciples and those who had followed and deeply loved Jesus. It’s hard. I know about Sunday. They didn’t. For them, it had to have been…