What do you want from God? If you could ask anything from Him, what would it be? Moses talked with God. A lot. Since the day he saw the burning bush on the back side of the desert, Moses had been meeting and talking with God. So I’m a little curious, a little intrigued that […]

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. Proverbs 25:28 ESV Do you struggle with self-control? Do you have a bad temper, do you procrastinate, indulge yourself in too much junk food, or just too much food, or watch too much TV, or possibly shopping is your thing. A […]

Do you like photos? Do you take photos? Wouldn’t you love to have a professional share with you how they chose a subject and why they composed the shot the way they did? Well, I’m not promising that EXACTLY, but I think there is a way to learn from their expertise just by studying the […]

Salvation is like this bus barreling along a dusty road in West Africa. No matter how many passengers are already on the bus, there always seems to be room for more. Today in the grocery store I saw about 20-25 people. I wondered how many are on the bus to heaven. We have a promise […]

#Wives are mysterious creatures. We don’t mean to be, but for all our talking we frequently bury our real thoughts and feelings under a mound of trivial chatter delivered in undecipherable code. Other days our emotions overwhelm us and we know they complicate and even derail the conversation when you try to get to the […]

“Wisdom is divinely worked in those, and only those, who apply themselves to God’s revelation.” J. I. Packer, Knowing God I often want to be holier than I am. I want to be wiser, kinder, and more Christlike, but I want it to happen without having to make any real effort myself. Can’t it be […]

[getty src=”186369096?et=vVu9nR16u0-2tKxOAwVBUQ&sig=wurG6xdvvIG_xEP_kkjAoCOzYMnH5xp7So6H_HHTVys=” width=”400″ height=”602″] If I could keep time in a bottle. If only, right. But the question still remains, would I use it wisely? I’d forgotten how much I liked Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle. The ‘story’ behind the classic folk hit is that Croce wrote it in 1970 after his wife Ingrid […]

Are two heads better than one?  Can it be too much of a good thing? [getty src=”181820728?et=5fd1VTg5FEGTtsUizpoazw&sig=CadN2KCu0GazT02S1BcDcYgS_aQbQKgee08PdOj6jbc=” width=”508″ height=”406″] Thursday afternoon I saw an email from WordPress announcing that Getty Images had added an embed feature and made it available free to non-commercial users. So I took the embed feature for a test drive and […]

It’s Friday and I’m done. I don’t mean I’ve finished all the things I wanted or needed to finish this week. I just mean I’m done trying. You probably noticed that I was in Africa. For 6 weeks. I’m not saying you cared, just that you noticed. Didn’t you? Last week I was glad to […]