For The Birds
I love getting up in the early morning to the sweet sound of birds chirping and singing. Regardless of how stormy the night before they greet each new day with…
Category: Encouragment
Exploring Galatians: Grace and Peace
Our acceptance by others seems important to our emotional well-being. We bounce between mimicking those we’re with to being extravagantly different to garner attention. The goal of acceptance is the…
Exploring Galatians: The Good Seed
My home is surrounded by fields. In our area, corn and soybeans are the most common crops. But there is also the occasional pasture, along with some wheat, garden crops,…
Trusting God’s Word
“Every word of God proves true. He is a shield to all who come to him for protection. Do not add to his words, or he may rebuke you and…
Exploring Galatians: Bearing With One Another
Researchers often use “magic-quadrants” to understand interactions within complex systems. These “magic-quadrants” are a kind of splatter graph where a dot up and to the right is best. A simple…
Exploring Galatians: Walk By the Spirit
We like rules and guidelines. As much as we complain about them, rules give us a sense of being okay. Rules allow us to justify our actions regardless of the…
Called to Freedom
Balance is interesting if you think about it. Place the balance point properly, and a large weight can be balanced with a small one. It’s not a matter of equality,…
Exploring Galatians: Tumbled Words
Have you ever gotten so exasperated with a situation that words just seem to tumble out? You know, like when a toddler makes a 5-alarm mess just as you’re getting…
Freedom and Faith
The priorities of our lives are like a tower of wooden blocks with the highest priorities at the top. But it doesn’t take much more than a rampaging toddler to…
Plans and Steps
We all seek to have a certain level of “control” in our lives. A few of us are control freaks and seek a very high control level. Most of us…
Exploring Galatians: Two Sons
As Paul nears the end of his argument, he deploys an allegory to make his point. “Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to…
Do I Know You?
Let’s face a fact. Most of you reading these words are unknown to me and I’m not really known by you. That is simply the nature of this kind of…