Posted: February 2, 2023
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Luke 12:27 (ESV) The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote in his epic poem, Idylls of the King, As if some lesser god
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Posted: January 18, 2023
The poet William Wordsworth, wrote: “My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And
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Posted: December 15, 2022
The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Psalm 146:10 I’ve written in the past about a curious phenomenon: how uncomfortable believers make non-believers. They have problems understanding how we can live our lives as we do without fear. The difference is all in how we understand
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Posted: September 7, 2022
25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 In my life pets have never before been an important
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Posted: August 18, 2022
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 (NIV) Well, I feel the need to scattershoot again…. while scattershooting, just wondering about time and space and all of those things. What is it with B-flat?
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Posted: July 11, 2022
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths. Proverbs 5:21 The late Blackie Sherrod of Dallas was one of my favorite sportswriters. He frequently began his wide-ranging columns with the phrase, “Just scattershooting….while wondering whatever happened to…” A scattershot is defined as “something that
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Posted: June 28, 2022
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39 (ESV) The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31 (ESV) And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
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Posted: June 21, 2022
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. Isaiah 43:1 (ESV) Our church choir has been rehearsing a beautiful a cappella piece entitled Do Not Be Afraid
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Posted: June 14, 2022
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1 (ESV) June is a special season for my family. On June 4 Debby and I celebrated the one year anniversary of our engagement. What a glorious occasion and a time for celebration. The birthday parade begins
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Posted: May 26, 2022
Last week we cheered on my grandsons at their baseball games. The first game was Graham’s – my 7-year-old – and it was a “nail-biter,” coming down to the last out. But during an earlier inning one of his teammates overran the bag at second base and was tagged out. This small child’s father began
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