For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great. Psalm 25:11 I heard the conversation in a hair salon. A young mother was relieved that plans she had agreed to had fallen through because her daughter was sick. She was clear that she was not glad her daughter got sick,…
Read More…you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt… Deuteronomy 7:18 Someone near and dear to me was going through a scary time of symptoms and tests, waiting for a diagnosis. I talked to her the day she was…
Read MoreWhoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Proverbs 17:27 I was proud and fearful at the same time. At our family dinner table recently, our Grandson, Bruce, asked what a “desktop” is. His father gave him a brief, but accurate description that…
Read MoreReligion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. James 1:27 A Christian friend told me about a problem I could not fix. Though she wasn’t asking me to do anything about it, I…
Read MoreIron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 I met my first Bible believing Christian in childbirth classes with my first child. We lived in the same neighborhood. I remember sitting at her kitchen table with our new babies and she would talk about the Lord like He was an everyday part…
Read MoreRemember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. Psalm 25:6 Life is hard and then you die. I can remember hearing (and saying) this as a child. There seems to be some “theology” out there that says that a Christian will only know prosperity and…
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