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  • For Others

        God give me hands and eyes for others. "For it is in giving that we receive …" Yes, it is. Only with an open had can I do either …And the same hand that gives, receives.Lord, guide my… Continue reading

  • Seven “P”s for a New Entrepreneurial Venture

    Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash I was honored to speak with yesterday at the Mentoring group of a local college seven years ago and I spoke from this outline:  It was from my napkin … some "P" words for starting a new… Continue reading

  • Come to the Party – An Advent Meditation

    It is a party, a Kingdom Party! It is the greatest party ever, not to be treated with contempt or indifference. If we do that, we don’t need to be thrown out, we’ve failed to really enter at all. We… Continue reading

  • “… they realized that he was speaking about them …” – An Advent Meditation

    "Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the… Continue reading

  • Women of Disrepute

    Rahab (center) in James Tissot's The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies.   What do Ruth, the Moabite, Rahab, the prostitute of Jericho, . Bathsheba, the adulteress, Tamar the accused, Mary, the young unmarried pregnant girl have in common? Disrepute and… Continue reading

  • A Thousand Years, an Advent Meditation

    We need to be remembering that a thousand years is nothing to God and, someday, will seem as nothing to us. A blessed Advent to you and to yours. Continue reading

  • Cleansing the Temple and Other Advent Mysteries

    Temple worship had become a big business and collaboration with illegitimate powers such as Herod had overwhelmed the meaning of the worship that the people were coming to the temple to bring.  In fact, sincere worshipers were being oppressed. Continue reading

  • Who Is This? Advent Meditation

    Who is it interrupting the execution of the adulterous woman? Raising the dead? Giving sight to the blind? Touching lepers with a healing hand? Eating with sinners? Calling tax collectors? Who is it? Continue reading

  • Sowing Joy – A Simple Prayer

    "Where there is sadness, let me sow joy." I do not know every sadness of humanity, Lord. "Man of Sorrows, what a name for the Son of God, who came …" I do not know.Thou knowest. Each heart knows its… Continue reading

  • The End of Wickedness

    “Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.” – Psalm 7:9 The evil of the wicked will come to an end. It may seem… Continue reading