Rest. It’s my word for the year in 2016. I’ve been studying it. Reading about it. Seeing what the Word says about it. Practicing it? Well…Ummmm….I’m working on that. Rest means: Desist from exertion. To cease work or movement in order to relax, refresh oneself, and recover strength. On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so ...
The place of works in the life of a believer is a big topic of discussion these days. Works or rest? Rest or works? Which is it? It was not your swords or bows that brought you victory. I gave you land you had not worked on, and I gave you towns you did not build – the towns where ...
These shoes. Ugh! I have a love-hate relationship with them. I can’t decide if they’re friend or foe! I’ve been trying to get back in a groove of running since I was sick last month. I’m still a touch congested, but I figure slow running is better than no running, and I can build myself back up. I didn’t really ...
It’s mid-April in Ohio, and we’ve finally got a few days of warm weather in the forecast. Last Saturday we had to cancel a track meet because the track was 4 inches under snow. But today…it’s going to be a glorious, sunny, 75 degrees. I’ve got big plans for a family clean-up day – branches in the yard, leaves from the flower ...
Usually I start my blogs with a cute story. Something funny, perhaps, that happened to me. To my family. And there are a few that I could think of that happened just yesterday. (My life could really be a sitcom.) But not today. Today it’s just this question that’s been reverberating in my soul. Is He really Lord? The title ...