Sabbath Thoughts

This is the last Sabbath Thought I'll post in 2020. Do you know what that means? …Very little, actually. It's easy to make a big deal about that...

I love words. That's a good thing for a writer to be able to say, but what I mean is, I love what you can do with words. Here's an example. If I...

Earlier this year, my little Primrose went through a particularly rough sleep regression. She had a hard time falling asleep—which meant Mary and I...

"My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now...

What a year. I just… What. A. Year. Way back in 2019 (which was, by my count, just 83 short months ago), I remember joking that 2020 was going to be...

The first time I saw my daughter's face, she was still in the womb. We were so eager to catch even a glimpse of our little girl that we paid for the...

Next week will mark the fourteenth anniversary of my baptism. Fourteen years. Almost a decade and a half since I formally accepted Jesus Christ as...

We can't see it. We like to tell ourselves that we can, but we can't. Sometimes, if we position ourselves just right, we can bolster our perspective...

On the cusp of the Promised Land, Moses told the Israelites, See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you...

There are two important facets to that instruction: "The truth" and "love." What are you saying, and why are you saying it? We can try to show love...

The only thing we really know about Lot's wife is that she looked back. That's it. We don't know her name, we don't know where she was from, we...

Jesus taught that the two great commandments, the summation and foundation of "all the Law and the Prophets" (Matthew 22:40), the pathway to...

…is to understand. It's great to have the best argument, the clearest articulation, and the cleverest presentation. But the (often frustrating)...