“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all”

—Emily Dickinson

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  • Mercy, Truth, Righteousness, and Peace

        Thursday, May 2, 2018 is the National Day of Prayer. This year's theme is unity. Ephesians 4:3  is the theme verse:  "Making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace." While I… Continue reading

  • How Can We Know the Way

      Picture the upper room and the somber mood of twelve friends hearing the ominous words from their Master that He will soon die and that they will soon fail Him. “Not I,” protests Peter. “You will,” declares Jesus, “But… Continue reading

  • It Is Not Just What You Say

      Our generation has venerated slander and consecrated verbal abuse. We feel fully justified to speak ill of our neighbors as long as we perceive them to be ideological enemies. We have the audacity to think that when our words… Continue reading

  • First Podcast

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  • A Short Ride and a Long Reach

    Impacting the world by taking a chariot ride … Rembrandt, The Baptism of the Eunuch, c. 1626. “And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza,… Continue reading

  • Psalm 22:24-26

    Psalm 22:24 – For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help. The God we praise is a God of… Continue reading

  • Don’t Blink

    From the past, we learn.For the future, we yearn. But in the present, we earn the capacity to discern. Missing the moment dislodges us from our pivot, disrupts our view, displaces our perspective, distances us from reality, and disconnects us… Continue reading

  • Roses on Our Noses

      "But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." - Matthew 5:37  Terri was straining to hear me in a meeting. That does not happen to me often. Perhaps she was… Continue reading

  • On That Very Day

    I am captured by the words, "on that very day." After 430 years in Egypt, a new day arrives. What is "that very day" for you today? I know that you probably don't know and I don't know, but there… Continue reading

  • Poems with No Particular Theme

    When he awoke from his despair,Daylight spoke; the sky was fair.April pierced the winter night.Faith had come, restoring sight. Jesus, hope of dying men,Mover of the heart and pen,Move my heart to pen some phase,That may return to Thee as… Continue reading

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