Even There
Psalm 139:9,10: “If I ride the morning winds to the farthest oceans, EVEN THERE your hand will guide, your strength will support me.” These are intriguing verses. Where ARE the farthest oceans? Point Nemo is an ocean location that is the farthest away from any land in the world. Astronauts would be the closest humans! […]
Delight in God Continually
How wonderful that we have the opportunity to enjoy our Creator at any moment! We can taste and see that He is good, even in the midst of tribulations. Westminster Catechism reasons from Psalm145 that “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” Don’t you love that! What does it mean, […]
Rest
Rest- refreshing tranquility… Rest – the part that is left or remains. In Psalm 23:2 (TPT) we read “He offers a resting place for me in His luxurious love.” The footnote in The Passion Translation reads, “The Greek word ‘to love’ is Agagpeo, which is the merging of two words and concepts. Ago means ‘to […]
Shipwreck
We were fortunate enough to celebrate our fortieth wedding anniversary in 2012 with a trip to Nova Scotia, Canada. That so happened to be the same year as the one-hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (of which we were not aware at the time.) However, we discovered that the Maritime Museum of the […]
Fully Alive
“The Glory of God is man fully alive.” This quote from Irenaeus, an early church father, has stirred something in me. When God said, “Let us create man in our own image”, it was very good! Adam and Eve were fully alive, enjoying the presence and fellowship of God. But then came the fall, the […]