I’ve been reading through my Dad’s old Bible lately during my devotional time. It’s a large print KJV with lots of pen and pencil notations and various pieces of paper and photos and other such interesting things he had in there. I came across one such bookmark in Psalm 73. Psalm 73 is a pretty…
The Wonder of Love
There’s a little, blonde, 1-and-1/2-year-old boy named Ezekiel who loves to run down the aisle of the auditorium when he sees me. As soon as I come into the church, he wriggles out of his mom’s arms and comes tottering down the aisle at full speed — sometimes a little wobbly — but arms stretched out…
Strength
Paul talks about having a “thorn in the flesh” in his letter to the Corinthians which has caused many to speculate over the years as to what it was. Was it demonic; was it a physical illness; was it a temptation? He doesn’t specify and says how he asked God several times for it to…
Beginnings
The other day I finished a book about the most unlikely woman, named Britt-Marie, who moved into a small town and despite her irascible, fastidious and often OCD nature about cutlery drawers and liberal use of baking soda for cleaning and her tendency to blurt out critical (but she thinks common sense and helpful) statements,…