The OTHER Verse About Vines and Fig Trees
The Feast of Tabernacles is so close I can taste it. I’m ready to be there. I’m ready to load up the …
Our Daily Bread
Boy, it would be easier if all we had to do was pray for our weekly bread, wouldn’t it? Or monthly bread. …
Smooshing the Clay
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 …
The Wilderness Road
Sixteen years. It was today, sixteen years ago, that I formally told God I was serious about this—that I wanted to see …
Learning to Love God’s Law
“Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day” (Psalm 119:97). For a long time, I had trouble …
Better Than Stardust
Speaking of the formation of stars and solar systems, astronomer Carl Sagan once wrote, All of the rocky and metallic material we …
Tedious Graffiti and Idle Scribbles
Before the city of Pompeii was entombed with ash for 1,500 years, it was covered with something else entirely: Graffiti. The eruption …
Some Thoughts About Scoops
I almost always make hot chocolate wrong. Those little Swiss Miss packets (or Greater Value packets, depending on where we are in …
“But Let a Man Examine Himself”: 10 Questions to Ask Before Passover
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. …
What Job’s Friends Got Right
It’s easy to overlook—mostly because they spend 22 chapters saying some of the most unhelpful, insulting, misinformed things a person can possibly …