Sabbath Thoughts
Boy, it would be easier if all we had to do was pray for our weekly bread, wouldn’t it? Or monthly bread. Quarterly bread, even. But that’s not the instruction Jesus gave us. He said to pray like this: “Give us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11). We don’t …
You and I—we’re not perfect. We know that. That’s why we’re here, isn’t it? We follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ …
Sixteen years. It was today, sixteen years ago, that I formally told God I was serious about this—that I wanted to see …
“Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day” (Psalm 119:97). For a long time, I had trouble …
Speaking of the formation of stars and solar systems, astronomer Carl Sagan once wrote, All of the rocky and metallic material we …
Before the city of Pompeii was entombed with ash for 1,500 years, it was covered with something else entirely: Graffiti. The eruption …
I almost always make hot chocolate wrong. Those little Swiss Miss packets (or Greater Value packets, depending on where we are in …
If I’m not careful, my pre-Passover self-examination can take a sharp turn into unhealthy territory. It’s so easy to see the failure. …
It’s easy to overlook—mostly because they spend 22 chapters saying some of the most unhelpful, insulting, misinformed things a person can possibly …
Some weeks, I don’t want the Sabbath. I don’t want to stop. There’s too much to do, or else I’m in the …