It’s been a while, huh? I wanted to drop you all a quick note to let you know that I am alive and well. I have spent copious hours doing many things, including a whole lot of nothing . . . on purpose. Ha! The Bible says, “there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens . . .” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). I have enjoyed my season of choosing to offer my presence to those with whom I’m proximate more than I offer my posts to the World Wide Web. I can now Continue Reading
Which Is It?
Is this pandemic an expression of God’s wrath and judgment? Is this pandemic a sign that the end times are beginning? Or is this pandemic simply the fruit of a fallen and sinful world? I can understand these questions being asked. I mean ... which is it? In Exodus God brought plagues “to make [us] see [His] power.” In Deuteronomy, God said disobedience to the Mosaic Law among the Israelites would result in Him striking them with “wasting disease, with fever and inflammation...” Then the Continue Reading
The Next Right Thing
It is in the writings of Joshua, Moses' successor as Israel’s leader, that we get great insight into the lives of the 2nd generation of God’s chosen people. In chapter 3 they are at the banks of the Jordan River. Levitical Priests are carrying the Ark of the Covenant, God’s people are following behind, and the River is now the only thing standing between them and possession of the land God had promised their forefathers to give them. I use the term “only” rather loosely, given that this large Continue Reading