Posts tagged “Faith”
Five words
Here’s a great thought to begin and end your day: “I am baptized into Christ.” Those five words can drown five thousand doubts. Can…
Daylight Savings
We gained a full hour this month in most of the U.S. Magically in the middle of the night on November 1, we doubled…
Is there really a heaven?
There is good news here on the skepticism front—polls consistently show that more people believe in the existence of heaven than hell. Hurray! Unfortunately,…
A common text
Every year my wife and I try to read the same current book. It’s usually nonfiction. Sometimes it’s devotional in nature. Sometimes it’s historical,…
Faith and facts
Some people claim that Christians are people of faith while atheists are people of facts. A more accurate description would be that both Christians…
Just the crickets
Before summer is over, I hope you can go someplace where all you can hear are the crickets. I’m not talking about crawling around…
Divine urgency
I see it clearly now. In my youth I had the mind-set that unlimited time stretched before me. If I wanted to learn to…
One perfect place
At the end of August 2017, my family moved from Canada to the Caribbean. Near and dear ones (and our packing company) looked on…
By faith, not by sight
We all have to navigate our way through life, trying to avoid the rocks and reefs that would cause us to shipwreck. Of all…
You’re invited
Our neighbor owns a business, and my daughter has worked for him for the past couple of years. Thanks to him, she learned how…
Flame on!
He was in his 80s, and he’d been through a lot. Exile. Conscription. Promotion. Betrayal. A failed execution-by-lion. And now a revelation from God….
Where else would we go?
It was a roller coaster week for Jesus. “A large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs.” These were hungry people who…