As I was reflecting on our granddaughter, Sarah, helping lead a mission trip with 25 young people from our church this week in Dakar, Senegal, I was reminded of the design that God set up at creation. It is generational and he is faithful to his covenant. Sarah is our third generation. Our family and […]
Christian worldview What happens when two worldviews collide? How about you? What is your typical response and course of action when the secular worldview conflicts with your Christian worldview? Or do you even have a Christian worldview? It’s not hard to have a non-Christian worldview because it’s in your face every day. We live in […]
Ecclesiastes Over the past year, I’ve been reading through the Old Testament and simultaneously, through the New Testament along with a Psalm each morning. This past month I have completed the book of Ecclesiastes. I found it to be difficult reading. Some of it I find depressing, some sobering and some fairly joyful. The Preacher […]
Suffering leads to repentance Friends, I believe we are at the point that Israel was when Solomon beseeched the Lord on behalf of the people. The message from God to Israel right before verse 14 was this. “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or […]
The Law Over the past several months I’ve noticed a growing phenomena at intersections. People are deliberately running red lights. Is it the lack of respect for law, life or limb, impatient, selfish, stupidity or just like to live dangerously? Maybe the reduced police presence on the streets gives them liberty. Whatever, it is really […]
A heart changed These are the responses from two wealthy men as they encounter Jesus in their city. Both had eagerly approached Jesus along the way. Zacchaeus was a ‘wee’ man in stature and had to climb up in a tree to get a view of Jesus. Jesus looked at him and asked him to […]
Alone What if you looked up one day and realized that you were the only person in the whole world who believed the gospel, the single solitary soul that believed in God. The remaining seven billion people did not. How would you feel, what would or could you do? Everyone thinks you were a lunatic, […]
Lessons from a puppy Meet Pax…the new German Shorthaired Pointer of my daughter and grandson in Great Barrington, MA. They got him at six weeks old, and he has just celebrated his six-month birthday (with plenty of growing ahead). This hunting breed is prized for being incredibly intelligent, loyal to his family, and willing to […]