Ponderings

Yesterday, after church, I spent the afternoon and evening working on the bulletin for next Sunday and crafting my Lenten sermon series. As I worked, I had the TV on, mostly for background noise, and ended up half-watching some old 1960s-70s television shows. Some drew

Ever since we got up this morning, my dog has been staring at me. She woke me up this morning with dog breath in the eye, went outside to do her thing, and now can’t take her eyes off me. It’s a little disconcerting. It’s

“I truly understand that God shows no partiality….” (Acts 10:34). We were studying Acts 10 in our church Bible study last evening, and I was once again struck by the significance of this one line spoken by Peter. It’s a remarkably simple sentence. No parable.

This morning, I’m quietly throwing an adult temper tantrum. That may be a bit extreme, but I decided to add a second day with a personal trainer, and I decided it would be better to do it first thing in the morning, and I decided

Looking back to your school days, what do you remember the most fondly? I remember my high school made the most amazing pecan sticky buns and cinnamon rolls. I don’t know how that happened, since I don’t recall anything else they made being noteworthy. They

Yesterday afternoon, I went out three times to shovel snow. The first time was productive. The second was still satisfying. I looked at what I’d done and could see I had made a difference. But by the third time, the wind had picked up. As

Because of (our decision to follow Christ) we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look … Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life

“Jesus entered and walked through Jericho. There was a man there, his name Zacchaeus, the head tax man and quite rich. He wanted desperately to see Jesus, but the crowd was in his way … So he ran on ahead and climbed up in a

God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.I’m an open book to you;even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking.You know when I leave and when I get back;I’m never out of your sight.You know everything I’m going to saybefore I start the