If I live by the two great commandments, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” and “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[Matthew 22:37-8] I am living at the heart of Jesus’ teachings. I am also loving in the most radical way possible: returning to […]
Last week I wrote about God being the director and us, the actors on the stage of life. I was not talking about God the puppeteer and us the puppets. The relationship between us and God when we have surrendered our lives is like how the director and actors work together in a stage play: […]
If I print my blog on pretty paper or wrap it up like a Christmas present with a beautiful bow, will I disguise this truth about modern people and God? Or maybe I should just whisper it: we are pretty disappointed in God. Oh, nobody much talks about this, but I believe this disappointment is […]
I sometimes think it’s a miracle that I am back in the church, given the church in which I was raised and how far from it I wandered. While I grew from a toddler to a young teen my family belonged to a southern Presbyterian church in Louisville, Kentucky. Every Sunday for those eleven years […]
I am on vacation this week so no blog, but I thought I’d post a story on myself that demonstrates God’s sense of humor. A few weeks ago I set an intention[my life is a series of set intentions with the Lord] to taste more of the sweetness of life and less of sweets–candy, ice […]
I just received a call from a web host who was trolling for more business among those who may be dissatisfied with their current provider. I get telephone calls looking for the person who has diabetes in my household(noone). I get calls from the police or fireman’s association asking me to buy tickets to their […]
Unquenchable. Eternal. God. Omnipresent. Imminent. Unseen. Mystery. Breath. Wind. More than Christ who left his teachings for us and God whose stories are told in the Bible, the Holy Spirit is the cipher of the Trinity. There is no intellect that can comprehend him, no book learning that reveals him. The Holy Spirit, described by […]
Surrendering control of your life to the Lord leads to a Christ-Centered life.
Like wood, it’s our imperfections, sanded, stained and polished, that are beautiful.