I’m working—well puttering and musing in my study this wonderful Saturday morning and I realize that I have no candle burning. After an unusually warm February week the air turned a bit colder this morning. Not cold enough to keep the birds from singing in the trees overhead. Not cold enough to keep the spring […]
You Are the One Who Lifts Up My Head
[Photo by Ben White] Back in October of 2016 the devil made a mistake and tried to discourage me. That made me turn to the Lord in prayer and ask some close friends to pray for me… When I woke up the Lord had lifted up my head… then he put this Psalm into my […]
Resolved
Resolved. When I listen to music just to close my eyes and listen to music–perhaps to stare into the fire but nothing more. When I read, to give myself to reading alone, tasting the words for their flavor and not rushing across the page. When I walk, just to walk. When I listen, to listen […]
Walking Off The Size of My Inheritance
Spending this quiet evening with an old friend, Fred Craddock. He has a way of saying the most profound things like this nugget: “I know I need to be scolded. I need to be corrected. I need to be instructed and exhorted and I need to be called to repentance. But I also need for […]
Why Church? Part II (Video)
Series: Ephesians 2017
Title: Why Church-Part II
Text: Ephesians 3:1-13
Evangel Baptist Church–Taylor, Michigan
February 5, 2017 AM
Story and Teaching for the Soul
When I am invited to Paul and Hannah Gardner’s home I always think of what C. S. Lewis wrote: “Is there any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?” They have a wood-burning stove and two rocking chairs arranged nearby. It’s usually summertime when I am invited […]
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