I am fascinated with metrics. As a kid I loved analyzing the stats on the back of a baseball card. I still love seeing how athletes measure up to the all time greats! But today, where I have chosen to align myself with Jesus, how...
Lately, on social media I have seen that people are posting their word of the year for 2021. It has been wonderful to see the encouraging, uplifting words that people have chosen. The only word that comes to my mind is endurance. I feel like that...
What is salvation and why are we saved? Many believers mistakenly think salvation is an event. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and confess this truth with my mouth. I am saved from the second death, God’s...
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the...
The only constant in life is change. In the spirit of this saying, I would posit that the love of God is the only other constant. The Bible teaches us that God and His love are never-changing and eternal, that there’s nothing we could do...
Although I went to church my entire life, I did not become a follower of Christ until I was in my late 30’s. In my younger years, I was a Christian in name only. When I finally understood God’s holiness and my sinfulness, and thus my...
Ask, Seek, Knock … Small right steps. Matthew 7:7-12 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks,...
My granddaughter Cailynne is gifted artist. Several years ago, I asked her to create a graphic of “God First” that I could print and frame. She created the lovely reminder you see here. God had convicted me regarding my tendency to seek Him only as a...
38 They will be my people, and I will be their God. 39 I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them. 40 I will make an everlasting...
Today is a day of waiting. As I write this, it is November 3rd, election day. I am waiting right now for two things, the COVID test results of a loved one and the results of our Presidential election. Lots of waiting. Both things are...