Posts tagged “Faith”
Don’t forget to look up!
I was several hours into a 25-mile hike with my family when I realized something odd. I had stopped looking up. Somewhere between mile…
Believe him
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”—Simon Peter (John 6:68) Just because you know something doesn’t mean you…
Your biggest “Thing” is fixed
Everyone has a “Thing” in their lives. Everyone is working through a problem, be it physical, emotional, relational, mental, or spiritual. What is your…
Faultless
For about 15 years of my life, I was a rabid collector of sports cards. Baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards, and hockey cards…
Your homeland is a gift from God
God has a long history of blessing people by giving them homes. The Israelites in Canaan … Joseph and Mary in Egypt … Jacob’s…
Death is not the end
I live about a block away from one of the largest and most respected medical systems in Wisconsin. It’s where I held my dad’s…
No coincidence. Just providence.
Why are you here? Out of all the things you could be doing or words you could be reading, why are you here right…
The potential is in the seed
At any given moment, there are two versions of you: the version that is and the version that could be. There was a commercial…
Test and trust
“Don’t test me right now!”—All parents everywhere at the end of their proverbial ropes All kids have heard this phrase uttered by their parents,…
Love letters
A few years after we moved into our one hundred-year-old home, I was cleaning out the highest, most-hard-to-reach shelf in our bedroom closet when…
Refreshed
A strange thing happens when you comfort someone else with God’s Word: you get comforted. An unexpected thing happens when you encourage someone else…
Jesus is my vine
Jesus loved to use parables and metaphors to explain who he was. This is one of them: Jesus said, “I am the vine; you…