Archive for November 2019

John looked around and everyone he saw had things he didn’t have to which he felt he was entitled, and he was miserable. Henry looked around and he saw others with things he didn’t have and he was grateful that he was able to see them at all because his wife was blind. A grateful…

After life itself, the greatest gift ever is the ability, the right and the obligation you and I and every human being who has ever lived has been given to CHOOSE WHO we will recognize and accept as the HIGHEST AUTHORITY in our lives. If we choose God, everything He planned for us falls into…

Have you ever observed something someone else did and say, Oh, I wouldn’t ever do that? But then realize that you had in face done the same thing or something even worse? To my shame, I have. Or, have you ever observed something someone else did and say, How in the world could they have…

Have you ever thought, how many times a day you ask yourself the compared to what? question? Why, virtually every decision we make is prefaced by it. This car vs. that car. This vacation vs. that vacation. This job vs. that job. This house vs. that house. This (blank) vs. that (blank), etc., etc., etc.…

In the creation story we have in the book of Genesis, we are told that God created man in His own image. That we are told it was two separate acts of creation must be significant. There was a physical creation (And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the earth) and a…

Have you found that certain words evoke certain feelings or images? For example, what thoughts or images does the word cheap conjure up in your mind? How about the word abundant or the word bountiful, or even the word alone? When you think of the word cheap does it conjure up an image of Christ…

Life is complicated. But it really doesn’t have to be. Whatever your questions about life, and wherever you go these days for answers, especially on the Internet, do you find that all you seem to get are Do It Yourself answers? just imagine, You have built a very complicated machine the design and purpose of…

God is not a tenant, a renter. God is only interested in fee simple ownership. And, like all of us when we purchase a piece of real estate, He wants and demands a good and valid Title. To that end, He issued His own Owners Title Policy. The price? The price was what Jesus did…

A fully formed, consuming, wholly self-sacrificing love? Have you ever been able to experience this kind of love? Do you believe it is possible? Have you failed in the love department? Do you know why? With four separate ways to describe love the Greeks didn’t have quite the problem we have. Thank God for the…

I only have one problem. I cannot seem to run out of things for which to be grateful. The great 6th Century B.C. Roman statesman and Roman philosopher Marcus Cicero said: Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. In the opinion of this 21st Century A.D. Blog-writer,…