Devotional

What do you do if you learn something that nobody else knows? Are you bursting to tell somebody else? Or, do you prefer to hold it close with a sense of having a secret? Daniel was a person who was made privy to a lot of information. The parts he wrote down appear to be […]

We’ve all been there. Life is not going as we planned or wished or hoped, and we start our own personal pity party. Of course, someone comes along and tries to cheer us up, but we don’t want any part of it. We find consolation or relief, maybe satisfaction, in feeling ourselves the victim of

I suppose my sub-title is “The Redemption of Judah.” Usually when we hear the story, it’s told as two separate stories, but I want to share with you the grace that can be found in putting the two together. The first story is how Joseph, the young son of Jacob, is looking for his brothers.

Doors… Doors lead you from one place to another. You go from outside to inside through a door. You move from this room into the next through a door. It’s a way to leave one place and enter another. When I was a child we used to sing a song, “One door, and only one,

We want to do some work on our deck. Although it bakes during the summer months, my wife has said several times in the last few months that it just hasn’t dried out this winter. In fact, one could expand that to our entire yard. Even on a beautiful day such as today, to walk

My wife got an ear full of my belly-aching this evening. We’ve talked for weeks about needing to cut back the crepe myrtles before they start putting on new growth. And, I remembered this afternoon that this was a task that we had considered doing today. So, it’s not like we put it off this

In preparing to write this I watched a video of Ray Stevens song, “Santa Claus Is Watching You,” with that humorous line, “he’s everywhere, he’s everywhere.” Well, I’m pretty sure that’s not true about good ole Saint Nick, but we know that God is everywhere (there’s a big word for it) and that He sees

I think I was like most children. When it came time to play with others, we would sometimes choose to mimic favorite tv characters. “You be …, and I’ll be …” were the words we would use. Who were some of our favorite characters to play? Even when we grow up, we often model our

Disclaimer: I have a pair of designer jeans that were given to me. My wife tells me they look good on me. Personally, they’re not that comfortable. I also have gray hair. Youth vs. Age. Wisdom vs. Beauty. Hmmm… For a while, it seemed to us old guys as if churches only wanted beautiful, young