Seize Each Sneeze In my childhood, many Christians refused to say “God bless you” when others sneezed, in order to avoid perceived superstition. No one is sure when the sneeze blessing...
Relearning How to Say Hello and Goodbye
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The Christian Life
United Disagreement
It’s Not Been Our Finest Hour Let’s face it. This has been a bad couple of years for the American church. It’s not that things were all good before. They weren’t. Politics, COVID, racial...
Not Wholly True: The Sin of God-Plus Religion
The Sin of God-Plus Religion: How Whole Is Your Heart? Tale of a Divided Heart Solomon’s story is a warning shot. According to 1 Kings 11:1-11, this man who started very well, ended...
Not a Glib 8:28er
Not a Glib 8:28er I’m old enough to have a strong distaste for the clichéd. Believe me: you don’t live through 32 years of unrelenting 24/7/365 level-6 headache pain, have two children...
Humility on the Opinion Front
-I have read the Bible from one end to the other at least 30 times. -I have studied the Bible deeply for 45 years. -I have researched it from cover to cover on numerous hard issues. -I...
O My Aching Heart
As I sit in my living room chair this morning, and await with prayerful dread the impending verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, and—whatever the verdict—its inevitable effects upon the...
Aiming for God’s way through human words
His Way with Words offers perspectives that are relevant for our times. In it I try to express his (God’s) way—as best I can understand it—with my words. Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this blog are not necessarily the opinions of my fellow elders. I am solely responsible for everything on this site.
