A wise man once said, "Know thyself"—but a wiser man said, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?"...
Knowing the Heart
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Sabbath Thoughts
These posts are the heart and soul of the blog—food for though on God’s Sabbath day.
Where Shall We Go?
I forget sometimes that Jesus had more than twelve disciples. I mean, yes, there were the twelve, the ones everyone remembers, the ones mentioned by...
Finding a Good Thing
It seems to me that as our society moves farther and farther from the idea of marriage as a sacred, God-ordained institution, the more the idea...
Lessons From a Broken Bradford
If you ever visit the southeastern United States, there are a few things you should expect to find—sweet tea, for instance. You're going to find...
Erasers and Wrecking Balls
There's a certain feeling of accomplishment that comes with watching a house come together from the ground up. To see a bare patch of earth become...
Going Where God Goes
Four thousand lifeless bodies were strewn about the battlefield. The army of Israel had suffered a terrible loss at the hands of their Philistine...
No App for That
I love my smartphone. The more I use it, the more I am convinced that its capacity to both save and waste time is nearly limitless. I have an app,...
The Battle for Peace
“Peace.” In the New King James Version of the Bible, that word appears in nearly 400 distinct verses. It’s a topic God inspired the writers of the...
Breaking Through Our Walls
Wolfgang Engels was a man on the wrong side of a wall. Conscripted into the East German army, nineteen-year-old Wolfgang Engels found himself tasked...
If I Just Had…
“Tomorrow” is a strange concept. No matter how close you come to it, you’ll never actually reach it—because once that clock ticks over to midnight,...
A Spiritual Stockholm
August 23, 1973 was a normal day at work for employees of Stockholm, Sweden’s Kreditbanken—normal, at least, until Jan-Erik Olsson entered the bank...
Learning to Do Good
After some 6,000 years of human history, I think we should all be able to agree: Humanity has no idea what it’s doing. There are some who would...
“SERVICE ENGINE SOON”
My “SERVICE ENGINE SOON” light came on today. I hate that light. It is probably the most evil light in the world. That one light can mean everything...
Pride and Prejudice and Pianos
“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,” said Darcy, “of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch...
My Umizoomi Car
In the world of my two-year-old nephew Mark, there are few things in life that rival the joy of a box of Hot Wheel cars or a set of trains sitting...
Living as Ambassadors
In 1961, members of the United Nations adopted and ratified a treaty called the “Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” which sets forward...
Tears in God’s Bottle
“You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?” (Psalm 56:8) At approximately 9:30 yesterday morning,...
Ripping Your Muscles
Muscles are peculiar, in that if you want to improve them, you have to rip them. And I don’t mean that in a metaphorical sense. I mean that, quite...