NEPHESH Repair! Back in March, the past two years caught up with me. The energy it took to manage the rollercoaster of people’ emotions driven by pandemic fears, social fears, political fears, spiritual fears, isolation fears, economic fears, and every other flavor of fear took their toll. The outcomes of this tsunami of fear were […]

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. James 1:21 Talk about your follow-up bLOGs! I just wrote about asking Jesus to weed sin out of our lives on Tuesday continuously, and here I am reading a similar theme handed down from our Lord’s […]

Working on My Weeds They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. Hosea 10:4 I spent two hours weeding in a large mulch bed next to the driveway yesterday morning. In May, Chewbacca and I had spent an entire day doing this in […]

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word. Psalm 138:2 This morning, I ponder if this is even possible in our context. Let’s parse out the words in this passage and see if […]

My dear brother, Sir Knight, was on a roll this morning. These two cartoons made the cut. Note: My commentary is below each picture.  My brother was wondering if this cartoon was a shout-out to SearchingFor42.net? I would not be that presumptuous. When I think about it, it would mean too many people are reading […]

Daddy, I don’t feel so good. Emesis is the involuntary, forceful expulsion of the contents of one’s stomach through the oral cavity and sometimes the nasal passages. It can result from poisoning, disease, motion sickness, pregnancy, excess gorging, purging, or a hangover. (a.k.a. vomit, puke, throw-up, up-chuck, disgorge, spew, heave, barf, retch, hurl) Isn’t it interesting […]

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 […]