Let's Talk Fidelity “Religion operates on the principle that ‘I obey, therefore God accepts me.’ But the gospel is ‘I’m accepted through what Jesus Christ has done, therefore I obey.’" Timothy Keller Read more Charity “Now abideth faith, hope and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.” I Cor. 13:13 Read more Belonging Jim and Harold stood chatting on either side of the fence between their adjoining yards. They’d been best friends forever, and this was where small talk occasionally drifted into deeper waters. Today was no exception. Read more Silence The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. — Habakkuk 2:20 Read more Distraction “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” — Winston Churchill Read more Ditches On an idyllic late spring afternoon, a friend and I cruised a curving country road in his convertible. These were the halcyon days of fuel prices, so the throaty throb of the big V-8 gulping gallons of gas dampened our enthusiasm not one iota. Col... Read more Opinion "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion" Proverbs 18:2 (ESV). Read more Bread Bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Isaiah 33:16 Read more Memories I open the door to his room and look in. It’s now empty, featureless, except for the telltale pinholes and shadowed outlines where framed memories once hung. Read more Endurance It’s the requisite line of nearly every adventure movie. “I’ll come back for you,” says the courageous hero. “I promise.” And, against all odds, he always does. We script our stories this way because we hate disappointment. We long for the assura... Read more Misery I sit here in moribund misery. The valiant efforts of my body to repel an unwelcome viral intruder are greatly appreciated. Yet I am flopped unceremoniously in a chair. A pile of crumpled tissues mounts beside me, evidence of a fruitless effort to... Read more Stupid I was out of my league and didn’t know it. Piloting a 50-foot monstrosity had mandated a written test and one cursory drive around the block. As a college-age taskforce volunteer I was full of imagined proficiency.So I felt no sense of impending d... Read more Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Fidelity “Religion operates on the principle that ‘I obey, therefore God accepts me.’ But the gospel is ‘I’m accepted through what Jesus Christ has done, therefore I obey.’" Timothy Keller Read more
Charity “Now abideth faith, hope and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.” I Cor. 13:13 Read more
Belonging Jim and Harold stood chatting on either side of the fence between their adjoining yards. They’d been best friends forever, and this was where small talk occasionally drifted into deeper waters. Today was no exception. Read more
Silence The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. — Habakkuk 2:20 Read more
Distraction “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” — Winston Churchill Read more
Ditches On an idyllic late spring afternoon, a friend and I cruised a curving country road in his convertible. These were the halcyon days of fuel prices, so the throaty throb of the big V-8 gulping gallons of gas dampened our enthusiasm not one iota. Col... Read more
Opinion "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion" Proverbs 18:2 (ESV). Read more
Memories I open the door to his room and look in. It’s now empty, featureless, except for the telltale pinholes and shadowed outlines where framed memories once hung. Read more
Endurance It’s the requisite line of nearly every adventure movie. “I’ll come back for you,” says the courageous hero. “I promise.” And, against all odds, he always does. We script our stories this way because we hate disappointment. We long for the assura... Read more
Misery I sit here in moribund misery. The valiant efforts of my body to repel an unwelcome viral intruder are greatly appreciated. Yet I am flopped unceremoniously in a chair. A pile of crumpled tissues mounts beside me, evidence of a fruitless effort to... Read more
Stupid I was out of my league and didn’t know it. Piloting a 50-foot monstrosity had mandated a written test and one cursory drive around the block. As a college-age taskforce volunteer I was full of imagined proficiency.So I felt no sense of impending d... Read more
