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Using Your Imagination – Part 3
Using the words of author Jerry Bridges, here’s the deal about using your imagination as you read Scripture. Bridges closed his last book (God Took Me by the Hand: A…Using Your Imagination – Part 2
Last time I touched on using the imagination as you meditate on Scripture, using the story of 12-year-old Jesus talking with the religious leaders in Luke 2 as an example.…Using Your Imagination—Part 1
Welcome to my blog! Or to those of you who have read me in the past, welcome back! If you note the date of my last post you will see…
I Am Christian
I wonder sometimes about Paul’s declaration in Philippians 3:10 that he wanted to have fellowship with Christ’s sufferings (“that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and…
Christumenical
Recently I had a conversation with a friend over an article she found online that described some beliefs C.S. Lewis held that are contrary to standard evangelical beliefs. (The article…
Bread of Presence, Bread of Life—Part 3
It’s very important when talking about God’s provision to have the right perspective. That is why I ended last week’s blog post by saying that according to both Old and…Bread of Presence, Bread of Life—Part 2
I have never painted myself into a corner, but I have unwittingly mopped myself into one. When that happens, you have to very carefully pick your way across the wet…Bread of Presence, Bread of Life—Part 1
I know a lot of people who are struggling financially right now. They say the recession is lifting but it hasn’t lifted for my friends, or truth be told, for…
And God Said: Listen Up!
Every year at Lent I pray about what I need to do, not do, give up or take on. Of course a person can do a bit of soul-searching any…
Standing for Christ
I listened with great sadness to last week’s news about the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS in Libya. While I have not tracked all of the “public” murders…
Praying With My Pencil” —Greg Asimakoupoulos
Now I sit me down
to think
and jot a prayer
with lead or ink.
If I should wake
before I die,
I ask you, Lord,
to help me try
to live each day
for what it’s worth
and make some meaning
of my birth.