“…It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all…” ~Jeremiah 31:17 I love to garden. When I shop at Pike’s I focus on…
“We are enlarged in the waiting…” ~Romans 8:24 Did you know there is candy in the check out aisle at Home Depot? That’s right. Candy. So, as we were checking…
Hope is an intensely abused word. We toss it around as a preface to so many things it’s lost much of its original significance. We say things like, “I hope…
At dawn one morning, Jesus was teaching in the temple courts. People gathered around him. He taught them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman…
As early as the 4th and 5th centuries, Christians in Gaul and Spain celebrated a season of spiritual preparation and prayer known as Advent. The word Advent means “the coming.”…
We all know the story of Christmas. And for the most part, we know it well. After all, it’s the greatest story ever told; the cosmic drama of divine love…
I’m a fan of Steven Curtis Chapman. Always have been. In the early years, it was just because he was edgy and contemporary, and his music invoked a raw sense…
Someone once said, “Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, sidestepping responsibility, pushing their luck, and stretching the truth.” 🙂 While we don’t want…