It had been a stressful morning at the orphanage—like most that school year. One of the children was doing her best to make life miserable for everyone around her. She was pushing all the buttons. She was testing every puddle to see if she could create a storm. By the time lunch came around, I …
I once wrote a story in which a farmer and a cowboy sit atop their horses on a butte overlooking the vast Montana landscape. The cowboy is almost certain he’s lost his mind to even consider what he’s about to do. The farmer assures him that if God is leading him into the venture, then …
I’ve always had this amazing dread of the underneath side of the house. Not a fear, just a dread of the mud and the spiders and the dark—and the spiders hiding in the dark, waiting to take up residence in my hair. But, this week I found myself tweeting this: “Goin’ in…Here’s hoping I come …
[Note: This was written Sunday night. I apologize for the delay in getting it posted.] It’s 12:45 a.m., and I’m wide-awake. I was almost asleep when I suddenly realized if I’m going to mow tomorrow, I should charge the weed-eater’s battery. I argued with myself for a while, trying to figure out if I could …
Week 11: James and the Fatherless Day 1: The Source of Wisdom (James 1:5) [Ed. Note – This was written several weeks ago…] Before I crawled out of bed this morning, I already had a specific need for wisdom that wasn’t there when I got into bed last night… that is the nature of orphan …
Week 6: The New Testament and Children Day 3: Counting Sheep – Matthew 18:10-14 I love mountains. Real mountains. No offense to those of you living in little mountains that never break above the tree line, but I love tall mountains. Several years ago, the Lord gave me the opportunity to visit with missionaries that …
Week 4: Widows Indeed Cont’d Day 3: It Won’t Just Happen – Be Intentional – Acts 6:1-7 Starting a new outreach is a little like starting a new blog: The page is blank, the cursor is blinking, but where do I begin? The Christians in Acts faced this to some extent when the Grecians began …
Week 4: Widows Indeed Cont’d Day 2: Taking and Teaching Responsibility – I Timothy 5:3-16 The New Testament gives us a fairly complete set of directions concerning the care of widows. 1 Timothy 5 in particular lays things out clearly. “Honor widows that are widows indeed.” (vs. 3) That seems straightforward enough. Honor widows. The …
Week 4: Widows Indeed Cont’d Day 1: Being A Dorcas – Acts 9:36-43 I first heard the story of Dorcas when I was eight or nine years old. I was amazed, not by the fact that she had been raised from the dead – although generally I suppose most people would consider that to be …
Week 3, Part 2: Widows Indeed Day 5: Compassion and Honor – Luke 7:11-17; 18:2-8 The widow in the temple was not the only widow upon whom Jesus had compassion. In Luke 7, we have a beautiful story of His compassion and care: “And it came to pass the day after, that he went into …
