Dale’s Rules Number 12 – Always Leave Room to be Wrong
I have these rules; guidelines, reminders, and challenges to navigate the highways of life. Some folks may not be very comfortable with today’s rule. It seems squishy and unsure about things,…
Category: Series
Overcoming What We See
Imagine for a moment walking up to a dessert table with two choices. One is a perfectly shaped wedge of apple pie. Its golden brown crust is warmly inviting, the…
Overcoming Our Wants
Where would you like to go for dinner? That’s the question Betty and I often ask each other after church. What are you hungry for? What sounds good? One of…
Another Tension – Freedom and Holiness
A few years ago I wrote a series of articles on God’s intentional tensions. Those seemingly contradictory verses which are campfires for division. Instead of staking a claim for which…
Overcoming Temptation
It all began in a garden. A lush paradise where every need was met and there was only one “don’t do this” rule. The rest, as they say, is history.…
Dale’s Rules of Life: Be Slow in Assigning Motives
I have these rules. By now you’ve probably figured that out. One of my rules goes like this, be slow in assigning motives to others. This rule is not catchy,…
Jesus Says Make Disciples
We end our exploration of Jesus’ commands where we began. We started with Jesus’ final command, often called the Great Commission. In that first article, we examined the command to…
Jesus Says Love Each Other
To be honest, we could have skipped most of the Jesus Says commands and gone straight to this one. The simple fact is this, most of the previous commands are…
Jesus Says Invite All
It so happened that a Pharisee invited Jesus to share a Sabbath meal with him. It was a subtle trap. Also, at the meal was a man suffering from painful…
Jesus Says Beware of Greed
On the surface, our next Jesus Says command seems limited to only a few. But when we dig a little deeper, think a little broader, and really understand what Jesus…
Jesus Says Proclaim the Good News
There are some of Jesus’ commands that we elevate and others that we hide in a box. We don’t throw them away, we know better than that, but push them…
Jesus Says Keep Watching and Praying
I think the best metaphor for our next Jesus Says command is something many of us do on a regular basis – drive our cars (or trucks, tractors, and motorcycles).…