I’m sitting on my favorite old couch with a fresh, blank page waiting to be written on, with a new topic, on a new day, of a new week, in my favorite month of the year. Here’s a side…
It’s very Pollyanna-ish. Yet, there is no question that if we are being fruit-filled, fruit-refreshing, joy-givers, then we are passing on gladness. It certainly wouldn’t hurt our world to hear more people playing the glad-game. There’s plenty of negativity…
Generosity is a practical expression of JOY. Over and over again, I’ve been reading the above quote, which I actually wrote in my Bible, sometime last February, a little more than a month into my focus on joy. Here’s…
1 – The fruit of JOY – it’s not meant to be hoarded, but to be given away. 2 – We are called to be life-giving fruit bearers. Those two statements. That was last week’s lesson on joy as…
I believe I’m coming to the end of my study on joy. Just a few more blog entries and I think I’ve exhausted my look into this one word. I didn’t have a clue, when I began, where this…
Now and then, we find ourselves traveling on some difficult roads. Not only are they steep, leaving us breathless, but they are dangerous, as well. Joy-robbers hide all along the way, and before we know it, they attack us,…
Hot on the heels of last week’s blog on confession, I’ve spent quite a bit of time thinking about the circumstances surrounding King David’s situation. Prior to his written confession in Psalm 32, followed by Psalm 51, David was…
We’ve enjoyed a great summer thus far. It certainly isn’t over, not by any means… What makes summer, well, summer, is warm weather; visits from a lot of friends; barbecues; freshly mowed grass; afternoon rain showers; kids laughing and…
Bay and I have served in ministry for years. For the majority of our years, we were blessed to work with youth. What a joy-job! We loved nothing better than planning, preparing, producing events, food, outreaches, food, worship nights,…