Answer Yes or No
God takes a lot of abuse, derision and especially misunderstanding He doesn’t deserve. Many have a very skewed picture of who God is. I sure did. That was on me. I did not know His impeccable character. I saw Him through the prism of my upbringing at home, my church experience and my own difficulties. […]
He Wept
In Luke 11, we find Mary and Martha at their wit’s end. They were broken-hearted, distraught and hopeless, to say the least. They had sent for Jesus to come in haste as their brother lay dying. And Jesus did show up, but just a little too late.. or was He? “Lord, if you had only […]
Powerful Prefix
Words, to me, are fascinating. Weird, huh? What is their root and what do they mean? Recently, I thought of the prefix “en”, and what it means in words like “enjoy” and “encourage”. First used in about 1785, “en” drives from the French, meaning, “to put into or placed in.” Examples are “en-large” or “en-tomb”. […]
My Life is like an Onion
My Life is like an Onion From the ground, I am stained with dirt. I am dry and I am flaky. But when I commit my life to you, my pursuit of You causes my flakes to shed. Layer after layer You pull off death. The closer I get to You, the […]
An Image of Abba
In the past year of my life, I have come to know God in a new way. Part of this new understanding is seeing that He is a “good Father.” Abba is the word that Jesus used for God. Abba in Aramaic meant something similar to what we would term now as Daddy or […]