“For the Lord taketh pleasure in His people…” – Psalm 149:4a “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast!And when I run I feel his pleasure.”  – Eric Liddell Again, God cares for your… Continue reading

Our ongoing task is to flesh out the ideals of the American dream that the first dreamers neither completely understood, yet glimpsed in truth, that they restricted to a few, but could not contain, that they believed, but could not… Continue reading

How is it that a small word or two of encouragement can make all the difference in a person's day? One compliment can turn the tide for another person's day or week. One blessing softly and sincerely spoken can lift… Continue reading

How many long for a day when they felt more needed and useful? Others long for such a day in the future. We measure our significance by how much people need us. It is not that we are not to… Continue reading

Tiptoes Standing on tiptoe in expectancy. Living breathless in the wind. Waiting with expectation among the voices of boredom. Living above the storm … Hopeful … Hope. Continue reading

Lives lived for others flourish and multiply in them. Lives lived only for ourselves perish with us. Let us live beyond ourselves. Continue reading

He does not say, "Heal me because I am a good man," here. Nor does he suggest any qualities of his character to make him deserving. Rather he pleads his own sin as the reason he requests healing. It gives… Continue reading

  In stormy times, one can expect storms to continue. In the eye of the hurricane, we ready ourselves for what is next. The pauses short, the respites, few. Our hands are braced, our muscles flexed. We ready our hearts… Continue reading

    "Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: “'Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him?What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were… Continue reading

  Father, as an under-shepherd of your flock, may I be willing to lay down and lay aside my life for the sheep. I am not sure what that means, but may I never abandon the vulnerable, the weak, the… Continue reading