This has become one of my favorite pictures. I took it last winter, and though it was cold (like freeze-your-face-off cold), the birds seemed to be in the air just to enjoy the sunset, flying back and forth in its light like the temperature didn't matter. It made me think of what life would be …
A Walk in the Woods
"Jesus led the blind man far away from his familiar spot. He put saliva on His hands, laid them on the man's eyes, then asked, “Can you see anything?” The man looked around. “I see people, but not in focus. They look like trees walking around.” Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes again, …
Time is Your Friend
Do you perceive the time of your life as running out, or as being fulfilled? "Redeem the time, because the days are evil" (Eph. 5.16) That means to fully occupy your life, taking every opportunity to do good, so that you overwhelm all the difficulties and darkness, instead of the other way around. Despite …
Taste and See
Galatians 5:22, 23: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law." We often see the fruit of the Spirit as a checklist of how we should strive to act to be acceptable to God and church. Especially church. …
Let There Be Light
"God is Light". Not "God is like light", or "God has light". And not "Try God light- now with 50% less commandments." God IS light. When He spoke the words, "Let there be light", something beyond our understanding happened. He wasn't just speaking the physics of the universe into being, He was speaking His being …
