Encouragement

August 11, 2008EncouragementIt’s three weeks before school starts and the activity level around Stoneybrooke is revving up. It’s almost like the sounds associated with a train pulling out of a station. It’s building – building –...

Honor Your Father and Mother

August 4, 2008Honor your Father and Mother As I am writing this “musing,” I am flying home from Colorado after spending some time standing alongside my father on the banks of a beautiful mountain lake. If you use your imagination a bit, you can see that I...

The Right Language

July 28, 2008 The Right Language In about 713 BC an Assyrian ruler named Sennacherib invaded Judah and threatened Jerusalem. In II Chronicles 32 (and II Kings 18) the bible tells us the story. Sennacherib sent some of his officers to Jerusalem with a message for the...

We Serve the God of Details

July 21, 2008We Serve the God of Details I recently read an amazing book that I would highly recommend. It is called, “Billions of Missing Links” by Geoffrey Simmons (Harvest House publishers). The book is a rational and detailed look at hundreds of...

Ungratefulness

July 14, 2008Ungratefulness In Paul’s commentary to Timothy regarding the end times, he lists what those perilous days will look like (II Timothy 3:1-5). He says the men will be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to...

Bad Day

July 7, 2008Bad DayOne of my favorite children’s book is entitled “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” This little guy is having a very tough day and his coping mechanism is his plan to run away to Australia. Alexander’s problems consisted of...