August 31, 2023

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‘Stop Telling Us What God Has Said’

I go through times where I’m troubled in various ways and often find myself awakening during the night into times of prayer, contemplations, song…and last night…even into dance at the foot of my bed. When we are pressed by many cares, and have many cares for many things and many others, where else can the Jesus follower turn but to Jesus? I was unnaturally worn out last night and was in bed rather early. During the night I awoke, and...

The Power of Two

I had not been vertical for very long this morning and was about to go downstairs to start my coffee when something sort of unusual (for a Saturday morning, or any morning, or any time of the day actually…) happened. Perhaps in your world this wouldn’t be too unusual, but in my world it felt unusual. I had heard a firm-but-light knocking at my front door. Yep, that is unusual. Perhaps I’m making a mountain out of a molehill, but...

The Hostage-Taking Therapist

I just read the latest article in my inbox from my substack article subscription to Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) and it seems like another worthy of passing along, with hopefully just a few limited comments I have about the matter. The article is written by a therapist and is titled A Letter to Parents from A Concerned Therapist. I formed my blog piece title here as a spin-off, subtopic that this piece generated in my own thinking...

When Joy Does Not Come Quickly Enough

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick,    but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12, NIV) “One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5, NET) “In thy right hand are pleasures forever.” (Psalm 16:11, LSB) __________ Imagine a world where there are multiple, overlapping and seemingly never-ending sundowns and sunrises (many situations and conditions), and in that, you might get a different glimpse of the landscape of the human soul. It is...

The Blessing

In the past year or more I have gravitated toward many thoughts about blessing and cursing, and seem to listen for these elements in many Psalms, Old Testament stories and New Testament references these days. As I look about me I increasingly see a world that is slipping not only into stupidity and madness but into seemingly newly-invented forms of deep evil as well as the resurrection of age-old forms of evil practices of all sorts. I don’t know that...