What is a god? By most people’s standards, it’s anything that has power over us. Do we give that power to our gods, or do they already have power over us?
One of the Ten Commandments entreats us ...
Read more: Self-Made Gods
Lightning can be very frightening. A person can be struck inside his or her home from a storm five miles away.
Scary, isn’t it? People in the American Midwest are advised not to stand by a window ...
Read more: The Lightning Strike of Christ
Boats are beautiful, especially sailboats. They raise their sails, they catch the wind, and they leap forward, masterpieces of perfection.
There is something sailboats do that reveals the care ...
Read more: Clearing Away the Cankers
The lion is unequivocally the king of beasts. He stands proudly in the African plain, and when he roars, every other creature runs in fear.
There is no beast to equal the mighty lion.
Our Savior ...
Kings are rich beyond belief. The wealth of the countryside is theirs for the taking. In medieval England, even the deer in the fields belonged to the king.
Christians are heirs of the kingdom of ...
Read more: Heirs to the King
It’s all about the grapes. Not real grapes, of course, but the blessings that seem to come in times of unexpected bounty, tumbling over us in exceeding excess.
That’s how life is, too, a ...
Read more: Bunches of Blessings
We live in a world of power brokers. They are the oligarchy, the privileged few who have the money and the authority to change the world for better…or for worse.
After the financial collapse of ...
Read more: Reigning with Christ
Space Mountain. It’s a Disney ride of thrilling proportions.
A roller coaster ride in the dark is both scary as well as exhilarating, because we know what’s going to happen, but we can’t see ...
Read more: The Truth of the Light
What do we find funny?
It’s not the same for everyone. Charlie Chaplin’s slapstick drove people to a mania of laughter, one that made him the toast of the town in the early years of ...
Read more: Our Laughing God
The phrase Breaking the Bank is an idiom meaning to spend more than one normally would, even if we have to tap our reserves.
It means drawing down our retirement fund to put our daughter through ...
Read more: Breaking the Bank
It’s the downcast head that tells us of someone’s depression. They stumble along, unwilling to look ahead, barely finding where to place each footstep.
It’s also how we walk when the storm ...
A foundling is just that, a child who is found, having neither claim to nor the care of parents. A foundling’s only option for survival is to have someone step in and exercise the right of adoption ...
Read more: Our Adoption Renewed
We whistle to call our dogs. We tap the tank to get our fish’s attention. Grandparents sit up and listen to the sound of the phone. “Dinner is ready” brings the family running.
We’ve got ...
Read more: Filled Up With a Good Thing
What is a god? By most people’s standards, it’s anything that has power over us. Do we give that power to our gods, or do they already have power over us?
One of the Ten Commandments entreats us ...
Read more: Self-Made Gods
Lightning can be very frightening. A person can be struck inside his or her home from a storm five miles away.
Scary, isn’t it? People in the American Midwest are advised not to stand by a window ...
Read more: The Lightning Strike of Christ
Boats are beautiful, especially sailboats. They raise their sails, they catch the wind, and they leap forward, masterpieces of perfection.
There is something sailboats do that reveals the care ...
Read more: Clearing Away the Cankers
The lion is unequivocally the king of beasts. He stands proudly in the African plain, and when he roars, every other creature runs in fear.
There is no beast to equal the mighty lion.
Our Savior ...
Kings are rich beyond belief. The wealth of the countryside is theirs for the taking. In medieval England, even the deer in the fields belonged to the king.
Christians are heirs of the kingdom of ...
Read more: Heirs to the King
It’s all about the grapes. Not real grapes, of course, but the blessings that seem to come in times of unexpected bounty, tumbling over us in exceeding excess.
That’s how life is, too, a ...
Read more: Bunches of Blessings
We live in a world of power brokers. They are the oligarchy, the privileged few who have the money and the authority to change the world for better…or for worse.
After the financial collapse of ...
Read more: Reigning with Christ
