Following Jesus in the everyday means living a life characterized by faith. Guys like Abraham demonstrated their confidence in what God says by packing up and leaving their homeland. I haven’t been asked to do that…at least not yet, but I have been invited to declare my citizenship in a Read more
On the eighth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me…eight days of His Name. Jewish babies are traditionally given their names on the eighth day after their birth. This one had His declared before His birth, but on the eighth day, it was official! What’s in this name? Read more
On the fifth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me…five healing wounds! The wounds in His hands are to cure all the wounds we receive at the hands of others, and all those our own hands cause. The wounds in His feet are medicine for the wounds we Read more
On the fourth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me…four gospels! We have four accounts of Jesus’ earthly life. Sometimes they match up exactly and other times seem very different. Eye-witness accounts are that way. We remember different details, see things from a unique vantage point. Each of Read more
On the third day of Christmas my True Love gave to me… three witnesses. As a follower of Jesus, I am ever in process…sometimes I look more like Jesus and sometimes much less. It is in those “less” times that I have doubts and questions about whether I am truly Read more
Moses had led the nation of Israel through forty summers of blistering heat and brutal thunderstorms. He longed for his last words to them to be like the gentle rains of winter and the trickling dews of spring. Oh, how we love the tender sprouts of spring here in the Read more