I am six months behind on the blog and reading plan. I have attempted to come back to it once already. But, to be honest, this is kind of exactly how I thought the blog would go. No, it’s my life that is not how I thought it would be. Let’s be honest, though, how …
So I read this passage, and the first thing that came to mind was “ain’t always the way?” They get back to Jerusalem after a a pretty gruesome time of it and start rebuilding. Folks start rubber necking and wander over, offering to ‘help.’ Now, I reckon they probably had some fairly sinister intentions from …
This series is a bit more difficult for me to write than the others. Through the Bible is the backbone of this blog, the original conceit. The Bible vs Sunday School is a secondary series with entries written as I encounter passages that seem to conflict with what I was taught, and Pieces of Me …
I shared in a post to my Pieces of the Mosaic series about a time our lives were diverted because others failed to make the right call. It was painful, but it wasn’t really personal. They had failed themselves as much as they had failed us, anyway. It was hardly our worst experience. See, my …
I find it interesting that there seems to be no negative repercussions for David’s dishonesty with Achish. I don’t have anything else to say about it except that it seems odd, but it really seems odd, doesn’t it? We do get another look at what makes David such a good leader. He has a massive …
The Psalm is heartrending. The psalmist is in despair, feeling completely alone, forgotten by God. But it’s also so very beautiful. The Psalmist’s response to despair: turning to God. Remembering where hope is found, praising God anyway. “My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you.” That should always be our response. I’m …
Well, this is my life. I haven’t posted in two weeks. I promised to look into prescheduled posts, and I never did, and then I hit a week of exhaustion followed by a week of severe migraines, and I didn’t post for two weeks. But that’s my life. That’s my health. This is probably the …
I have felt called to speak since I was in college, almost 20 years now. I have never had a platform to speak from. Even if we hadn’t moved around too much for me to develop a ministry position that would grow out of the local church into regional retreats and national conventions, I haven’t …
When I was on vacation somewhere around fifth or sixth grade, I had the pizza at a seafood restaurant. I have no idea if that’s relevant. I didn’t like seafood, though. I got sick. I got really weirdly sick. I didn’t have a life-threatening fever or hospitalizing dehydration or anything, just a lot of pain …
I considered writing something about the provision for the priests through the sacrifices, but to be honest, that doesn’t feel quite right, so I’m going to step over to the Psalms. I haven’t written about any of the Psalms yet, even though most of my lettering has been from the daily Psalm. I didn’t even …