As many of you know, many of these meandering thoughts I write can indeed seem obscure and perhaps “odd”. But the things I read,  see, or that  capture my imagination and cause me to meditate and wonder —especially when I am traveling alone, as I am this week in France—seem to often point to something inspired. I hope this little blog helps you see some common things a bit more “uncommonly”. The verse that caused my musing this weekend is from Psalms 87:2:  “The Lord loves th

Most of us reading this devotion have suffered over something or someone  over the past few months. Why does not God wipe out all suffering, pain, and the sources of all the suffering? Why doesn’t God do what the Marvel Comic, villain,  “ Thanos ” , does and simply snap his fingers and make us all holy, impervious to pain or disease or sadness— and thus end all this fuss about sin, etc. The answer is found, crazy as it sounds, in the love of God.  If I were able, I would not

An Ideal Community…. “Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.   Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.   Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.”  Hebrews 13:1-3, NIV) I read the last chapter of Hebrews this week and realized,  for the first time, that it offered a perf

“The LORD looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.” – Psalm 14:2-3 “If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And   if   your   right   hand   causes you to sin,   cut it off   and   throw it

Paul’s last words, to his beloved apprentice, Timothy: “ Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.   Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.   And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.   Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant t

“This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you,  who directs you in the way you should go.   If only you had paid attention to my commands,  your peace would have been like a river,your well-being like the waves of the sea.   Your descendants would have been like the sand,  your children like its numberless grains;their name would never  be blotted out   nor  destroyed from before me.”   Leave B

It’s been said that really are no “ordinary people” in the world.  I spoke at a funeral yesterday about one of those “not-ordinary”...

This is our third and final little series on the promises of God.  And like I keep saying, these words are helpful to me , and I believe...

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“He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.” Psalm 147:4, NIV This is a very beautiful way of telling us about...

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.   For our light and...

“It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,  with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel....

Heaven! As each of you prepare to go home soon—-or as you dream of a vacation soon—imagine moving to a new country where there was no...