Living From the Inside Out
Fruit grows quietly. It forms slowly. No one stands in an orchard and shouts at an apple tree to hurry up. Growth comes through roots...
11
Jan
29
Dec
I Have Resolved
The New Year is upon us, and people are already making resolutions. You commit to, stick your chest out, hold in your belt, and resolve to…
24
Dec
Christmas in the Stable
I leaned on my elbow looking out the farmhouse window while my mother and sisters cooked food and set the table for Christmas Eve dinner...
22
Dec
Jesus Fully Human
Here’s a good verse for Christmas: Colossians 2:9 says, “In Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body.” Really? Could this child we celebrate...
21
Dec
At the Breast of the Lord
Ah, a child’s life, wrapped in a warm blanket, sleeping peacefully in his mother’s arms, with hardly a care in the world. Worries aren’t his...
15
Dec
Welcome Jesus In
I bet your home is decorated with sprigs of pine, twinkly lights; cookies on the table; carols are playing, and you open the front door...
8
Dec
I’m Dying to Know…
We use words in strange ways. Take the word dying. Your daughter in tenth grade says she’s dying to know the football captain of the neighboring high school...
1
Dec
Pursue God
An old Puritan once said that “The worth and excellency of your soul is measured by what it loves.” So… the truth about you, who you really are...
29
Nov
Where Are the Simons?
I once read that criminals to be crucified often had to carry to the place of crucifixion their own cross beam, a piece of wood weighing up to fifty pounds...
28
Nov
Scaling the High Bar
God telling me that I should be holy is like his telling me to scale the high jump at a track meet. But wait. Who’s that in front of the high bar...