What then is worship?
Suppertime highway rush hour traffic. Five lanes of highway, all eager to get home in this week before Christmas. As the lanes separate to transform from highway into streets, traffic slows and gridlock halts all progress. Doing a quick shoulder check before changing lanes, the car behind fails to notice the stopped vehicles in front…WHAM!This…
Black, cold, hard, dead. That is how the ground looks. Still so frozen underneath that you cannot dig. Yesterday, I had the initial inspiration for this devotion. As I was leaving the house, I could see the starts of the tulips pushing their way through the ground. I had planned to take a picture and…
Psalm 131 (NIV, ©2010) Psalm 131 A song of ascents. Of David. 1 My heart is not proud, LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like…
I overheard a teen talking the other day about another teen. The subject apparently had been working out and was doing some body building. The comment was, “It’s good he’s getting big muscles. His ego is so big that he will need the muscles to save him from the trouble his ego gets him into.”…
Have you ever noticed that between denominations and even between churches within the same denomination, there are differences in the way things are done? How about between you and your closest friends? Do you do everything the same way? If not, why not? It was brought to my attention the other day that there have…
Last summer, one of my girls was lifeguarding and on her way to her station, she hopped off a short retaining wall (probably only 40 cm or 18 inches tall). The sloping lawn led to the wall and at the bottom was soft sand. As soon as her feet landed in the sand, her life…