I have some swampland – water surrounded vacation property in Florida.
I have a high mileage, oil burning truck – well-loved truck that uses a little oil.
I have a complete gut job house – fixer upper forever home. (more…)
I have some swampland – water surrounded vacation property in Florida.
I have a high mileage, oil burning truck – well-loved truck that uses a little oil.
I have a complete gut job house – fixer upper forever home. (more…)
We want a God that doesn’t rock the boat, a God that thinks like we think, a God that is no more than we can understand. God is so much more and we would be wise to step out of our comfort zone and seek God beyond our own terms.
I never want to be called a hairsplitter. It would hurt me deeply if I found out that people avoided me because they were worried I would correct them over the simplest misuse of a word or phrase. Most of us have met someone that strives to better themselves by inundating others with useless facts and petty corrections. That’s not me, at least I hope it isn’t. I guess you can be the judge by reading this post. (more…)
Psalm 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the house,
the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the guards stand watch in vain.
I would not blame you if you started reading this post thinking it was going to be about the church practices we grew up with and the grip they can have on us. I would not be shocked if you approached my words with a “haven’t we changed enough” attitude, after all the music in church has been modernized and the dress code revised and the sermons simplified. (more…)
Parent go to lines are a dime a dozen; a dime a dozen is also one of my parents’ go to lines. Much of what we have learned started with some type of logic. The problem is, logic as a starting point does not guarantee logic as the foundation of the final conclusion. (more…)