Passive-Aggressive? My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. ––James 1:19-20 I have a friend—we’ll call him Pete—who is textbook passive-aggressive. He will tell you everything is fine, but then drop […]
A Time to Remain Silent There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak…. ––Ecclesiastes 3:1,7 I can slip into “Fix-It” mode in a heartbeat, even though it’s not always the […]
Grab the Reigns For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the […]
Offended by Everything The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. ––2 Corinthians 4:4 As God’s men, we get our 77.43 years on this spinning blue marble, and then heaven. So the […]
Parenting Traps to Avoid But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand. ––Isaiah 64:8, NKJV Chrissy and I often marvel at the fact that despite our faults and failures as parents, God has blessed us with three adult children who love Him and are […]
The Cost of Discipleship Then [Jesus] said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” ––Luke 9:23 [Discipleship] is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.[1] ––Dietrich […]
Marriage Mistakes Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. ––Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 After nearly forty years of marriage, I’ve learned a few […]
Favorites If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. ––James 2:8-9 One of the reasons I like the Book of James so much is that the man absolutely did […]
Contemplative This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. ––Joshua 1:8, NKJV kän-təm-ˈplā-shən 1 a: concentration on spiritual things as a form of private devotion b: a state of mystical […]
On the Road with the Wounded A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by […]
