It’s All Good

  Goodness gracious and for goodness’ sake! This sure is good news! Surely one of the most overlooked fruits of the spirit is–you guessed it–goodness. Perhaps that’s because, surrounded by such brokenness, we often have a hard time seeing, and...

The Greatest Show in Heaven

From out of the holiday bedlam a self-promoting world throws its annual tantrum toward those vocal heralds known as evangelists: “The audacity of those proselytizers always talking about God and Jesus and salvation. They need to keep it to themselves!” To some minds,...

Who Me?

Some moons ago, my son was ten and his soccer coach announced he would not be returning to coach the team the next season. As the other parents stood shoulder to shoulder listening to the coach’s words, apparently I was doing the standing part, but not the listening...
A Path Made Just for Me

A Path Made Just for Me

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” (Psalm 119:105) I remember as a young boy hoping I would find a million dollars. Wherever I walked I’d imagine looking under some nearby object and finding a hidden treasure, envisioning all the while what...

In the Wooze

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel.  -Proverbs 12:15 A few weeks ago I had a dental procedure which involved general anesthesia. All went well, and I got home in a state of relative comfort, took a brief nap, then...