Pride is bad. What’s more, pride is sickeningly ugly. It is a frightful thing to find in the mirror and a hideous thing to see in someone else. It introduces itself in inopportune situations. It is no respecter of persons. It is enough to damn a man to everlasting wrath.
Pride also takes assorted shapes and sizes […]
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There is a sinewy connection between joy and shepherding and I regret that there are still too many occassions when the two are cut asunder. It isn’t that I lament others seeing the lack, I lament the fact of the lack. I don’t wish that I could hide my joylessness better, rather I want to […]
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I did not go “back to school” yesterday for the first time in 28 years. The past six years I taught one or more high school Bible classes at our Christian school and the previous 22 years I made my way through the typical course of elementary, junior high, high school, (three) colleges, and then […]
I thought this was interesting…and tiring.
The Rev. Warren Carr of Durham, North Carolina, prepared a questionnaire asking his congregation to tell him how much time that they thought he should give to a list of specified tasks. The members of his congregation were shocked to discover that the average work week indicated by […]
There are a few things I don’t need any help with. I’m good at these things. I don’t need tips from books. I don’t need advice from friends. I know what I’m doing and I do them well. If “Things I’m Good At” was a category on Family Feud, the number one answer according to […]
It’s been over three weeks since my last post and I appreciate everyone who prayed for our trip and all those who have persistently checked the void.
For those who don’t know, we did make it back home to Washington state about a week ago. Returning was certainly smoother than going, though the airline did fail to […]
It’s 2:11 AM CST and I’m sitting on the working end of a hard plastic bench in Terminal 5 at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. I’m drinking a 20 oz. Mountain Dew and eating a small bag of reduced fat Gardettos. Mo, Maggie, and Calvin are attempting to sleep beside me, but even though I have […]
Some of you may remember that my dad passed away one year ago today. Though it was not unexpected, and though it did relieve him of much discouragement and physical pain, it was obviously still sad for us.
In honor of him, my mom created three large notebooks of memories of my dad’s life for me (and […]
I recently began reading Steve Lawson’s new 584 page book, Foundations of Grace. It is the first of five volumes in a series called “A Long Line of Godly Men” that intends to track the Doctrines of Grace throughout church history. This first volume covers 1400 BC to AD 100, or in other words, it […]
Today is the first day of March. What? That means two months of 2007 are down and I need a quick review/reminder of my Resolutions.
My first goal was Less fiddling. No doubt this issue is better and the year has been more productive thus far by comparison, but I still need to maximize pockets of minutes […]
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