Some of you may have noticed a certain amount of hoarseness in my voice in the past two weeks. Well, at the beginning of this fateful fortnight I apparently got a cold, maybe it was Cherie, maybe it was Katherine in the office, maybe it was one of the charming, lovely little pathogen vectors we […]
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Tags : aces and pains, bronchitis, cold, couch, cough, denial, fever, flu, grace, headache, hubris, influenza, patient zero, plague, pride, runny nose, sacrifice, salvation, sleep, sniffles, sore throat
Just a cup of cold water, in charity given, is remembered with joy in the skies. We are all but human, and we all have to die. And, six feet of earth will make us all of one size. Did anybody here see the movie World War Z? Sorry to hear that. Didn’t like it […]
Tags : Abraham, chasm, Christmas Carol, equal, Erlander, hubris, humility, jacob marley, jaundiced, Justice, Latino, Lazarus, lucky, manifest destiny, Moses, Olla Belle Reed, prophets, salvation, servant, six feet, World War Z, worldview, zombies
I was reading the God Pause devotionals that are sent out by the esteemed seminary where some of America’s finest pastors are educated; Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN, that Heaven must be a rollicking place what with all of the joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. […]
Tags : 1 Timothy, auctions, celebrate, celebration, conviction, dancing, devotional, freedom, God Pause, Law, lost, Luther Seminary, mercy, One big party, pastor, pastoral call, Pharisee, rust, salvation, tools, uncomfortable message, works righteousness
How do you tell people that they are dead? They don’t look dead, for the most part; and they don’t think of themselves as dead, for the most part. In fact, most people don’t think that the lives that they lead are at all deficient, or lacking, or somehow broken, and if you manage to […]
Tags : avarice, Board Games, dead, dead people, Elijah, forgiveness, generosity, grace, greed, Hope, life, loser, love, madness, Man of God, old-fashioned, salvation, Surprise, Widow, winner
I hid under the sheets, hoping to surprise my daughter when she came upstairs for bedtime, and prayers, and a weird ritual we have sometimes called “lumpy bed” where I pretend not to know that she’s there and pretend to just lay down in bed and then complain that there are so many lumps and […]
Tags : bedtime, children, discipleship, gift, grace, Home, Hope, love, mission, salvation, smell, trust
I have always envied people who can draw. Or paint, I’ve envied them too, or sketch or sculpt, or pretty much anything else that gives visual representation to an idea. That’s what it is. That’s what an artist does, they have an idea and the they show it to you, they create a thing that […]
Tags : artists, celebrate, celebration, cousins, dreams, etch-a-sketch, fathers, God's love, images, imagination, painting, plan, salvation, sons, tapestry, visions
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