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This weekend we were singing “God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman” at a church we attend. The last two lines of the first verse stood out to me: To save us all from Satan’s powerWhen we have gone astray. Here is the essence of the Gospel and something that can speak to a post-modern world. There…

On a personal prayer retreat this past weekend the following verse by Rich Mullins stood out to me. You who live in eternity Hear the prayers of those of us who live in time We can’t see what’s ahead And we can not get free of what we’ve left behind I’m reeling from these voices…

As I sleep at night, I breathAs I toil each day, I breathEach breath touches a place deeper than my lungsIt inhales the spiritual essence from which I was createdIt exhales a passion to pursue first the things of God

I’ve recently been introduced to the music of Peter Mayer. One song from his Million Year Mind album is John’s Garden. It’s an allegory of life written about a fictitious conversation in a pumpkin patch. Farmer John wandered back And when he reached the pumpkin patch, began to speak He said “the weather’s getting colder…

This past week we watched Walk The Line. (With three young children we usually have to wait until a DVD is available at the library.) A while ago a friend had told us how it wasn’t a good movie to watch because it spent too much time on the negative aspects of Johnny Cash’s life…

Last Thursday I read a devotional on the title of Lily of the Valley as it applies to Jesus. The vulnerability of this title stands out to me. The size of this flower makes it vulnerable to being trampled and ignored. How often do we do this to Christ? Still He is persistent in bringing…

Here is another post from my other blog on Sunday, September 11, 2005: This Sunday (September 11) we talked about the fourth of five stories Jesus told which illustrate how we should live our lives in light of the ever-present possibility that He could return at any time. You can read about it in Matthew…

Here is another post from my other blob on Sunday, September 04, 2005: On Friday, August 26, we discussed a story Jesus told about a wedding feast prepared by a king. It is found in Matt 22:1 – 14. In the story, the king has everything prepared to throw a wedding feast for his son.…

Here’s a post from my other blog on August 11, 2005:This Friday we discussed a story Jesus told of some laborers who worked for a man who owned a vineyard. Although different groups of workers started at different times throughout the day (one group working for only one hour), they were all given one day’s…

Here is another post from my other blog on August 3, 2005: This past Friday we discussed the story Jesus told of a servant who received a great amount of mercy from his king, but he could not find the same compassion in his heart to forgive a fellow servant of a much smaller debt.…

This is a post from my other blog from a discussion group we were a part of on June 11, 2005: Last night we continued our series of discussions on the illustrations and stories that Jesus used to explain to the people of His time what the leadership of God is like. Many of these…

I remembered this poem I wrote in my journal earlier this year and thought I’d post it. I wrote it in response the Jesus’ words that are found in Matthew 9:13 in the Bible. I thought of it again today because I was meditating on an account of the same story in Mark 2:17. A…