Today, we come to the concluding part of the series titled "When a moralistic mission goes awry"... Miserable... While King David's friend may have lost his life, it was the King who felt the most miserable (1 Chro 13:11-12) at the sorry turn of events for which he...
There are three different routes I can take to work. Two involve the use of our local highway, and one employs the backroads. Naturally, this third route is the prettiest…but also the longest... That week, as so often happens in the fall of the year, our stroke unit...
Living out of God's will will bring pain. Being in God's will will bring peace. "I made a big mistake," my friend said. She offered to drive a friend's car to the hospital one afternoon. As she left to come home it was dark and the parking lot was full. She hit the...
"I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eye." (Psalm 32:8) The year I taught a class of 4-year old kindergarten students, I think I learned far more than they did. One little boy in the class just could not say...
Philip was instructed by God to go to a certain place at a certain time, and when he arrived, there just "happened" to be an Ethiopian official on that same road, an Ethiopian with lots of questions about Scripture. A chance meeting? Hardly. Truly a divine...
"Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain." (Psalm 127:1) What great plans! We were so excited to have come up with what we thought was going to be a really great plan. When the...
In the concluding part of the series on the creative force of the Tongue, let's consider some Biblical accounts which encourage positive speaking besides finally looking at that Scriptural portion which inspires us to virtually "speak our way" (by His infinite Grace)...
Last week, in Hearing God's Voice of Wisdom, Part 1A, I related the story of how God used circumstance, His Word and His Peace to give me hope that my son, would indeed receive an engineering co-op, but not in a conventional way. Just what did God mean? What was the...
An analemma is the result of a year-long series of photographs of the sun, taken one week apart at exactly the same minute every week. A certain day and a specific time must be set aside each week for one whole year to take each shot and the process cannot be hurried...
"And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go..." (Judges 4:8-9a, KJV) [1] Barak made this promise or covenant with the prophetess Deborah. She wanted him to lead an army of Israelites to battle...