My Facebook profile pic this week is a quotation from a great preacher: “You can live on froth, bubbles, and little wisps of badly understood theology until the pressure is on. But when the pressure is on, you will want to know what kind of God you are serving” —A.W. Tozer. I posted this forContinue reading “STUDY THE WORD. 2 Timothy 2:15.”
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WISDOM. Hebrews 4:12-13.
The year 2020 was a year of searing pain. I talked to a friend at work during the summer of 2021 about the year of 2020, and about politics, riots, COVID, vaccines, and suffering. If you measured the greatest amount of pain distributed to the greatest number of people, the pain of 2020 must haveContinue reading “WISDOM. Hebrews 4:12-13.”
GRATITUDE. Luke 17:15-16.
When I fell out of the garage rafters as a child and hit my head on the iron car bumper, I was happy not to be paralyzed. I was on the concrete floor doing sit-ups (to shake off the pain) with my hands clasped behind my head, and I was so thankful not to beContinue reading “GRATITUDE. Luke 17:15-16.”
THE SABBATH AND THE QUARANTINE. 2 Chronicles 36:21.
As a baseball dad, I wrestle with the Sabbath. How many times did we have a game scheduled at 8:00 a.m. on a Sunday? Because we made a commitment to the teams, I encouraged Marshall to play, but he understood (and I explained it to him all over again each Sunday that it came up)Continue reading “THE SABBATH AND THE QUARANTINE. 2 Chronicles 36:21.”
God Will Bless You During Judgment. Jeremiah 17:7-8.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I listened to a Christian speaker who argued God was sending judgment beginning with Covid-19. It put me in a dark mood. But when I look back at 2020, I have to admit God blessed our family. Bad things happened, but we were not sick or hungry or impoverished. I didContinue reading “God Will Bless You During Judgment. Jeremiah 17:7-8.”
What About All This Free Time? Isaiah 55:11.
God once sent a punishment that sounds like the year 2020: “Joy and rejoicing have been removed from the orchard: no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards. I have put an end to the shouting.” Isaiah 16:10. In 2020 there was no cheerful shouting. Stadiums were quiet. Weddings were quiet. GraduationsContinue reading “What About All This Free Time? Isaiah 55:11.”
Choose Courage. Psalm 91.
This week (March 12, 2020) has been unprecedented. We have previously lived through hurricanes and floods and the associated hysteria. But I cannot recall anything to match the worldwide fear created by the Coronavirus pandemic. Just a few minutes of television, radio, or internet, and you’re convinced we are all going to die—and that thoseContinue reading “Choose Courage. Psalm 91.”
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