History, Real Life, and Faith
“Quit reading that book.” Can there be such a freeing admonition? I’d been complaining to a friend about how much I detested a very popular narrative nonfiction book everyone seem to love. This unnamed book violated every lesson I’d ever heard on the topic and I knew people would die as a result of her foolishness. Pretty harsh. But who…
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How did attending Oswald Chambers’ Bible Training College change a pipe fitter’s life–for good?
“You need to prepare for your future life with forgiveness,” the pastor said during our premarital counseling back in the Dark Ages. He sent us off for a week to think and pray about people we had hurt in our past. We needed to contact them, tell how we believed we had hurt them, and ask for forgiveness. “You don’t…
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While clapping my hands this morning in my dance class, I marveled at the lack of pain. Seven years ago, on 1/11/11, when I joined the health club, my hands were a mess. But other health issues drove me, a woman who had walked three miles a day for twenty-five years, to the gym. I needed to improve my cardiovascular…
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Utmost Ongoing; thoughts on My Utmost for His Highest by various writers
I’m going to choose a year of deliberate grace in 2019. My world needs it. I need it. God stresses it. It will make the people I love happier–in part because the peace that passes all understanding should reign. Right? What is deliberate grace? A choice to extend grace to an individual, organization, or event when the opportunity arises. Or,…
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