Posts from 2023 (Page 3)

Have you ever had one of those dreams in which you find yourself in that dream sinning against the Lord? Perhaps egregiously? And knowingly? From time to time I have. If you’re like me, when you awake you have a sense of relief that it didn’t really happen. But there’s also a startled-ness as you think, “Oh, my! Could I actually do that against my Lord? Grieve so deeply…

Barb and I have been camping with our grandkids this week. We’ve had some wonderful times with these young ones and our hearts are full to overflowing. But the matter of freedom has come up a time or two: Why can’t we go to the river by ourselves? Why can’t we ride our bikes on the big road? Why do we have to have a grownup with us? (Ad nauseum? Well, not…

Pleading the Mercy! When someone you know has taken some ill-advised turns in life and then comes up against some degree of crisis, how do you pray? I’ll confess that sometimes I pray rather consequentially. “Lord, so & so has done such & such and now the consequences have arrived. Plow deeply, Lord, that he/she may learn the lessons well and not take those…

Do you remember the man from whom Jesus cast out Legion, a whole host of demons? He was so ecstatic over his deliverance from demonic bondage that he pled with Jesus to allow him to accompany Him. But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, He said to him, “Go to your home and to your people and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He…

Are you familiar with the unpleasant experience of being interrupted? Most of us know the feeling all too well. We find such inconsideration and rudeness quite distasteful. It was at Cornelius’ home that Peter, having just begun to communicate the message of salvation in Jesus Christ, was very forcibly interrupted. In his own words, “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit…

My 8-year-old granddaughter Hosanna has discovered harmony! Visiting this month from Africa, she has taken a keen interest in the piano and has been learning to play the melody of Christ The Lord Is Risen Today. Melodies are great, but they just beg for harmony. So the other evening when she was practicing her song I knelt down beside her at the piano and showed her…