God’s First, Best, and Preferrable Plan… “We are not called just to be people who follow Jesus. We are called to be people who turn around and teach others how to do the same. We are called to make…
Because We’re A Forgetful People… During the years that I worked toward my master’s degree, one of my professors drilled the following into us, his students. “We are a forgetful people, we must daily (and, sometimes, more than once…
Need Comfort? God Is… For four weeks I have been mulling this verse over and over. I know exactly how long, because I’ve been praying through the psalms one at a time, and Psalm 46 popped up on the…
“Snow Sandals” When we returned Stateside from living overseas in Kenya, we arrived at the peak of summer. So, weather-wise, it was no big transition for our kiddos to continue wearing shorts, t-shirts, and flip flops, which was their…
On Goat-Intestines and Being Offensive In light of last week’s Jesus-Be-Jesus-In-Me post, an additional thought for this week… During one of our midterm breaks at Rift Valley Academy (while our children were off on a little trip with their…
The Jesus I Want to Be Shortly after we arrived in Kenya, one of the high school classes hosted a talent show in which the student body was invited to participate. So, the dorms emptied, and we all gathered…
Pushing Pause If you know music, you know what these are symbolic of, right? The most commonly used (of the above) is this sign: If you read sheet music, you know that each of these indicates what is commonly…
What God Does With Trash This morning, as per my usual routine, I went for a walk outside, in order to get in my 10k steps for the day. Someone has said something to the effect that if you…
What God Says About His Love & Spiritual Adultery Earlier this week, Bay and I met up with friends in Moab, Utah for some light hiking and sight-seeing (BTW, the pictures sprinkled throughout this blog do not do the…
If I were asked to describe the Bible in just a few words, after ho-humming for a bit (because I’m definitely not an individual who can do “few words”), I’d probably land on two: love story. The Bible is a…