WHEN PRIMAL EVIL VISITS

For the last several decades of my life, I have realized that our perceived form of human dignity holds up long enough until real and primal evil appears on the doorstep of our home wanting to bring harm and death. At that point, all our arguments and perceived...

WHEN EVIL LEADERS RULE

In the many plagues God brought upon Egypt, it was not the people of Egypt who were the problem. It was Pharoah.  The book of Exodus tells us, “Now the Lord had caused the Egyptians to look favorably on the people of Israel. And Moses was considered a very great man...

MAKING THE SHOT

Long before compound bows and graphite arrows came into being, the kind of bows with all the pulleys and cables attached, I hunted with either a longbow or recurve bow. Those simple bows were just sticks. They were a single stick of a bow with a string strung between...
THE DEBRIS PILE OF HUMAN OPINION

THE DEBRIS PILE OF HUMAN OPINION

I just took a truckload of debris to the dump. It reminded me of walking through my social media accounts of late. In those accounts are so many varied opinions about so much. After I paid my bill, I was directed to a large disposal center where huge tractors were...

RISE HIGHER

I just checked out our local news cycle. It seems the battles in Israel and the incursion into Gaza are getting less and less attention. It’s not unusual. We need to rise higher in our understanding of what is happening to discern the heart of God. It is always about...

LIVING IN THE MOMENT OF GOD’S GRACE

Yesterday, I was looking at the remaining coffee filters sitting in our kitchen drawer. I asked myself, “Where will I be when all of these are gone?” I did the same thing a few weeks ago when I got my recent oil change. Then again with our anticipated annual cleaning...