Books… Who Are You Walking With? 12 May 201412 May 2014 Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm (Proverbs 13:20, NIV). Charlie "Tremendous" Jones put his own humorous twist on this verse when he…
Love Love Covers Over All Wrongs? 8 May 20148 May 2014 Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs—Proverbs 10:12, NIV. It is easy to see how hatred stirs up conflict. But love covers all wrongs? What does that…
Trust… Confidential 6 May 20147 May 2014 Several years ago, my dad and I visited some very good friends who live in New York State, Glenn and Linda Jamison. At one point Glenn asked me about a…
Spiritual Formation… Truth Doesn’t Mean Much Without Trust 6 May 20146 May 2014 The past 24 hours has had a reoccurring theme: trust, or rather, the lack thereof. A daughter of mine is struggling with trust issues with her teachers at school, my…
Spiritual Formation… Lessons from Rats 5 May 20145 May 2014 Yesterday when I got home from work, my daughter Anna came to the door to meet me. She was in tears. Her pet rats, Dawn and Midnight, had both died.…
Christian Living… Anger == Danger 2 May 20142 May 2014 This week my posts have centered around the idea that the love that God’s grace produces is proved as much by what we don’t do as it is by what…
Love… Pulling Up the Weeds 1 May 20141 May 2014 1 Peter 1:22 (NIV) says, Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the…
Love… Has Jesus Really Made a Difference? 30 Apr 201430 Apr 2014 Christ died and rose again so that we could be brought from spiritual death to life, to take out our hearts of stone and give us hearts of flesh that…
Jonathan Edwards… Even Love Has Its Counterfeits 29 Apr 201429 Apr 2014 The love that God's grace produces is proved as much by what we don't do as it is by what we do do. Knowing what love looks like is important.…
Love… What Love Isn’t 28 Apr 201428 Apr 2014 At one point when Hillary Clinton was testifying before congress about the events that led up to and followed the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, she got so…