Posts tagged “Grace”
Going in the ditch
On the way to school one snowy morning, my kids hit a slippery patch and slid off the road. Now, the kids were fine…
Celebrate your dependence
For people reading this in the United States, today is Independence Day. Americans love to celebrate the day the Continental Congress declared we were…
Your #1 motivation
If there’s a gap between the person you are now and the person you want to be, what gets you to change? If you…
Laugh a little
Life can be so serious. There’s a lot of important stuff going on, important things we need to be doing, and important matters we…
A father who broke the rules
I’m a rule keeper. A rule giver. That’s a confession more than a boast. I reflect on the many rules I laid down for…
Jesus is our autocorrect
It took me an incredibly long time to be comfortable with texting. After using a normal-sized keyboard for 30 years, I wasn’t comfortable with…
Our fingerprints are on the cross
“As the soldiers led [Jesus] away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross…
How can it be?
A few years ago, three songwriters handed Lauren Daigle, a Christian artist, some lyrics they wanted her to consider for a new song. The…
Jesus is our autosave
I love Microsoft Word. It’s the program I use for my devotions and blogs and freelance work. There’s only one problem. It doesn’t have…
Jesus isn’t afraid of your fears
Researchers say that at least 645 known fears exist. Like the fear of heights, fear of spiders, fear of change, fear of failure, fear…
Before Bethlehem
Was Jesus “Jesus” before he was born in Bethlehem? The second person of the Trinity, God’s holy Son, first received the name Jesus at…
The urgency of evangelism
One afternoon I was staring at the screen of my laptop, trying to come up with a sermon theme for an upcoming message on…