Train for Godliness

For centuries, Christians have cultivated their relationship with God through the regular practice of several simple habits, sometimes called “spiritual disciplines.” Most of us know the main ones: Bible reading, prayer, and scripture memory. These practices are...

Certainty in dealing with uncertainty

Our lives have odd changes and adjustments in this time.  A friend of the family postponed her wedding several months, having hoped an indoor wedding would become more feasible.  Debi is making the food for it and having to mask up as if for surgery.  Guests will sit...

Where Do I Stand?

What then shall we say? Those whom God predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified; and those whom He justified, He also glorified. (Romans 8:30) Do you ever read the Bible and find its promises amazing and wonderful, but fear that your...

Alert to Magnificence

“Pastoral work, in large part, deals with the difficulty everyone has in staying alert to the magnificence of salvation.” So says Eugene Peterson (Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work). I believe he’s right. Do you really know what it means to be “saved”? Read on....