STAND

The first snow of the season has come and gone. Although most of it has melted, looking out at the trees and evergreen shrubs, you can still see snow in the branches and leaves where the sun has not reached it and it’s not warm enough to completely melt it. While it gives sort of … Continue reading STAND

Parts and Pieces

18 years ago I had back surgery. After it was done and I was recovering, my surgeon asked me if I had suddenly developed any new desires or yearnings like gambling. I said "No, why??" He said "Well, we use donated bone to fuse vertebrae together, and we never really know where it comes from." … Continue reading Parts and Pieces

Saved Alone

This past week I have been discouraged. Tired of the constant barrage of "bad news" around the world from the pandemic to the protesters to the riots. Conflicting reports of what happens, who said what, predictions of both good and bad in the economy. It's been getting to me, along with some personal trials and … Continue reading Saved Alone

DOES Jesus Care??

2020 has been a year of questions, and most of them are about the pestilence that is walking the entire world, crossing all the boundaries that make us all different on the outside. But the disease affects us all the same way, that is, the biological process that is the infection does not differ from … Continue reading DOES Jesus Care??

Morality

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, that great Russian historian and philosopher, said when people asked him what was "...the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’” He had heard older … Continue reading Morality

Walking

Charles Johnson and The Revivors sang "I can't even walk without You holding my hand." (Here's a rendition by Jesse, David, and Guy.)In the lyrics it says: "I thought I could do a lot on my own; I thought I could make it all alone. I thought of myself as a mighty big man; … Continue reading Walking

Anxiety

I've got a confession to make. I'm tired. Physically, mentally, spiritually; how many ways can you be tired? And all of these lead to emotional fatigue. It's not a good place to be.Seems to be a part of the human existence. Inevitable. Someone said the only sure things in this life are death and taxes.Nope. Not … Continue reading Anxiety

Thought Control

Another good devotion from Worthy Brief: 2 Corinthians 10:4-5: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;Picture … Continue reading Thought Control

Faith

“Because you have so little faith.” This was the first thing Jesus said to his disciples after Jesus healed a boy possessed by a demon that caused him to have seizures. The father of the boy said the disciples could not help him. Later the disciples, no doubt timidly and somewhat ashamedly, asked Jesus in … Continue reading Faith