"Watch your life and doctrine closely"
We seem to enjoy lists, especially at the end of the year. Looking at “best of the year” kind of lists seems to stir up a bit of nostalgia in us for a year that is about to end. Perhaps there’s something in us that longs for a happy ending and these lists give us…
Knowing he’ll never see them again, Paul gathers the Ephesian elders and counsels them with these words: Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my…
About 53 million light-years from earth is a supermassive black hole that is the core of Messier 87, one of the largest galaxies in the observable universe. Several billion times the mass of the sun, this black hole (like all black holes) has such a gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape it…
Have you ever done the right thing only to suffer loss for it? Has telling the truth led to consequences that the person who was willing to lie didn’t have to face? Has being unwilling to compromise morals costs you an opportunity for advancement to someone who was willing to make such compromises? Being a…
“Check out this video,” a friend of mine told me after returning from a trip to Colorado. He regularly takes his Jeep up to the mountains and always returns with a video that makes me cringe to watch. The latest video was him making a right turn on a switchback that was essentially a U-turn…
Growing vegetables is slow and steady work. Hours are spent and calories are burned for what oftentimes seems fruitless (er, veggie-less?). While the work is at its highest in the spring, it certainly doesn’t start there. Investments must be made even now that will affect next season. Today, the peel of my daughter’s banana will…
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds (Psalm 9:1). I roll over in bed and check the clock for the 50th time. My alarm will go off in a few hours, but fearful anticipation about tomorrow keeps my mind alert and my heart racing….
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to…
It’s been a long day. You’ve completed your daily tasks at work, ate your dinner, enjoyed time with your family and put the kids to bed. Now, it’s your “me time.” What should you do? Find a new series on Netflix? Play a new video game? Imagine sitting in a crowded waiting room at the…
You have put more joy in my heart then they have when their grain and wine abound. In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. -Psalm 4:7-8 I went to church camp every summer during high school. The five days at camp would be…