I love my wife. On my best days I order my life around what’s best for her. She does the same for me, and parents do it for their children. Jesus takes love to a whole new level. He did what was best for all of us by sacrificing His life to pay the penalty […]
Seven filters for deciding which novels to read.
Many fiction readers have a grid for deciding which novels to read (or avoid). Here are seven benchmarks I’ve found helpful. 1. I read whatever a family member recommends. Most recently that included a novel by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature. It featured 238 pages of contemplation, solitary activity, minimal dialogue, and […]
The Spirit.
Those of us who follow Jesus Christ today do so by faith as we learn about Him from the Bible. It might have been easier to follow Jesus in His actual presence, but I don’t think so. Nothing about the disciples suggests they had any advantage over us. Nor did any of the people who […]
God is not like that.
We frequent a hard-to-find restaurant because the food is good and their portions are generous. Especially their soft-serve ice cream . . . except for one time. A new employee hadn’t reset the temperature after refilling the machine, and the ice cream was all mush. We smiled, laughed with them at the runny ice cream, […]
While there is yet time.
When you strike a match to light thirty candles, you focus on the match, not the candles. Matches burn quickly and fingers feel pain. When you’re on vacation for a week, Monday is relaxed, Thursday is purposeful, and Saturday is too late — you’re packing for home. If you’re given six weeks to live, every […]
