Good Gifts for Your Children

Good Gifts for Your Children

I was reading Matthew chapter 7 this morning and was arrested by the phrase, “good gifts for your children.” Everyone wants to give their kids good stuff. This past Christmas I got a card from my god-daughter and she was regaling gifts she received over the years. She...
Don’t Waste Your Covid

Don’t Waste Your Covid

About 15 years ago, John Piper was facing a horrible diagnosis of cancer. But instead of whining or fussing about the hard days to come, he wrote an amazing message entitled, “Don’t Waste Your Cancer.” If you have not read it, please go download it and absorb his...
Stuff People Tell Us

Stuff People Tell Us

As I am writing this musing, I am sitting in the parking lot of the Department of Motor Vehicles waiting for a friend. You ought to hear some of the conversations. You can hear some amazing “advice” and thoughtful insight for living from others. The trouble is, a lot...
Get Up!

Get Up!

There are some amazing examples of changed lives laid out by Luke in Acts chapter 9.  Saul became Paul. Peter is becoming the natural leader of the first church in Jerusalem. Aeneas is healed and Tabitha is raised from the dead. Clearly, God was busy working in...
A Peach Colored Bible

A Peach Colored Bible

I had reason this past week to do some studying into Red Letter Bibles. Back in 1899, an editor of The Christian Herald, Louis Klopsch and some others decided to print a New Testament that emphasized the words of Jesus by rendering them in red. A couple of years...
Self-Control

Self-Control

As Head of a school, I used to love the first week of the new year.  Not only did everyone have their new shoes, uniforms, bows and lunch boxes, they were literally bouncing with excitement as they wandered the hallways.  But if you stopped by the classrooms,...