2025.05.23

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. Romans 15:2 The words for neighbor show up at least 150 times in the scriptures. Jesus taught us that we are commanded to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. The general message is that our fellow human beings should be […]

2025.05.20

Twenty-five years ago, shortly after my father-in-law died, I began to become aware that the Lord was asking more of me. At about that same time, my pastor introduced me to a book that he had just read, and encouraged me to read it and consider its challenge. That book was The Prayer of Jabez […]

2025.05.16

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. Zephaniah 3:17 It strikes me how many people see God as a construct of the human condition, or a […]

2025.05.13

Dandelions On Sunday in the treasure chest I use for children’s sermons, one of the kids had filled it with dandelions. He had put both the flowering and seed spreading phases of the dandelion in the box. I spoke about the flowering phase as the part that we show as beauty to the world, and […]

2025.05.09

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2 The word “condemnation” (κατάκριμα) jumps out to me as it literally means a punishment handed out after sentencing […]

2025.05.07

After I returned from my vacation, the Big Lizard took off on his. Godzilla refused to tell me where he was going, but I figured he would show up somewhere. That certainly is some suspicious graffiti on that dam in Japan. Oh no, they say he’s got to go…go go Godzilla!

2025.05.06

The Power of Creation The other day I was walking Mayhem!! when I noticed something for the first time on the property line between us and the bank, where I have lived for thirteen years. There is a massive maple tree with a piece of old fence pole incorporated into the tree (see above). The […]