Summer is for more than recreation. It is for re-creation. Even as the ground and the nests teem with new fruitfulness, so summer can be a time for us to be “re-created”, renewed, revitalized—a new fruitfulness. Summer is much better than the winter months for such things. In January we make our resolutions for new lives and then struggle through […]
God is a lot of things. He is not in a hurry. Why should he be? He works from a position outside of our 9 to 5 (or is it 8 to 6?) world. He doesn’t need to be in a hurry; he has eternity in his hand. That same God promises to provide for his people. And he does. […]
This week we celebrated our anniversary. A friend of mine and I were talking about a guy who blew up his ministry. My car is about to turn over to 200,000 miles. Friends at church are far better golfers than I. The house we bought a year ago is becoming our home. What do all these have in common? None […]
Mitch Albom, a popular Detroit radio personality, put it in the “bad song prison”, but I always thought it was one of the best “one hit wonders”: Signs by the Five Man Electrical Band. My favorite part was this: And the sign said “Everybody welcome, Come in, kneel down and pray”. But when they passed around the plate at the […]