If you’re a parent, you know what I’m talking about when I mention kids going through the “Why?” phase. Their curiosity is so great that they ask questions, lots of questions, especially the “why” question. It goes something like this: “Daddy, why do I have to brush my teeth?”“Because Daddy said to.”“But why?”“So that your…
Read MoreRemember to Worship
When Christians face storms in life, how are we supposed to respond? What are we supposed to do? In the previous three posts, we’ve said that we should pray and we should trust. There’s something else we can do as well, and it may not be the first thing that comes to mind. When we’re…
Read MoreIn God We Trust
We’ve been discussing what we can do when we face storms in life, whether we’re talking about COVID-19 or any other type of difficulty we might face, and we’ve said that there are at least three things we can do: we can pray, we can trust, and we can worship. In the last post we…
Read MoreTrusting the Pilot
Earlier this week I was working at my desk when Kim came into the room and handed me my phone. She said, “Something is going on with your phone, it keeps giving you notifications.” So I looked at my phone only to discover that we were under a tornado warning! I thought I had left…
Read More“Peace, man!”
When I was a kid, the “peace sign” became popular. You just held up two fingers, and if you were really cool, like me of course, you’d say, “Peace, man!” It was better than someone holding up one finger to you, I guess. The peace sign grew out of the anti-War movement and technically was…
Read MoreA Day on the Lake
I don’t know about you, but I like things to go smoothly in my life. I don’t like bad surprises or unexpected difficulties. A couple of years ago my daughter called me from college. I answered the phone, and in a rather stressed voice she said, “Dad, my car is really loud!” I had no…
Read MoreHe’s Still on the Throne
I honestly never thought that I would live to see a pandemic. I’m sure you didn’t either, yet here we are. Like many of you, I’m quarantined at home, staying away from other people in an effort to “flatten the curve.” I have a feeling that today’s children will be telling their grandchildren all about…
Read MoreAll You Need Is Love
One of the most misused, misunderstood, and confusing words in our language today is the word “love”. We use this word every day: “I love your outfit,” “I love this weather!” When I was six years old I watched a movie called The Love Bug.” When I was 16 years old I watched a TV…
Read MoreDon’t Be a Dead Sea Christian
The Dead Sea is a salt lake bordered by Israel and Jordan whose shore and surface level is 1412 feet below sea level, our planet’s lowest elevation on land. It’s nearly 10 times as salty as the ocean. The Jordan River is the only major water source flowing into the Dead Sea, and, get this,…
Read MoreGrowing Through Giving
As we continue our look at discipleship and how, as believers, we can grow in our walk with God, we come now to one of those topics that always tends to be a sensitive subject: the importance of giving. See, I told you it was sensitive. Some who are reading this have already gone on…
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