Psalm 77 has wrecked me. The words of the psalmist – better, the cries of the psalmist are filled with emotion. This person of God is wounded and weary. This person is begging for something to change. This person very boldly asks if God has forgotten them. They feel cut[…]
“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” – Proverbs 4:23 As a kid, was there anything better than the month of June? When the calendar flipped to “May” excitement started to bubble, and as the month crept on each day felt like a[…]
“People can think correctly and behave rightly and worship politely and still live badly–live anemically, live individualistically self-enclosed lives, live bored and insipid and trivial lives.” – Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places The morning readings this week have taken me to the book of Hosea. A book[…]
I know a lot of folks who seem to be in the midst of storms right now. Be it work related, health related, personal relationships, or some other storm, this psalm is for you. I hope and pray it gives you a peace that it has given me. This storm[…]
Jesus wants more than good deeds. He wants our hearts – The Resevoir I try and let my morning devotional times be opportunities to let truth set my day, but this morning really made me pause. A devotional I’m reading asked about what a “loveless marriage” looks like. My counseling[…]
Do everything without complaining and arguing,so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. – Philippians 2:14-15 Can I be honest for a second? I really hate this passage. Seriously. Every[…]
Joy and I decided to stay in Kentucky this year for vacation. We had planned to head south and spend time on the Florida beaches that we love. COVID spikes invited other plans and to say we were disheartened is an understatement. I know plenty of people who have kept[…]
When I was a teenager, my youth pastors were insistent that to be a leader in our youth group I had to be spending time growing my faith. Pretty much on a yearly basis, they would pull out the “TAWG” talk. Don’t know what the “TAWG” is? It’s an acronym[…]
When I was a kid my family would load up the van every couple of summers and head off to upstate New York to visit my grandmother’s family. It was a 3 day drive up and a 3 day drive back. Sometimes our trips would include added stops – sometimes[…]
Remember when you were a kid and you would imagine your play ground equipment turning into a castle or fort? In my backyard, my cousin and I would routinely take off in our F-14 Tomcats to jet around seeking Russian Megs that were getting way to close to our aircraft carriers[…]