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All Kinds of Lost and the Heart of God

Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Lost is a heart-breaking word. Whether it’s connected to death, defeat, directions, or possessions, it can bring us face-to-face with emotions ranging from frustration to the deepest grief. At the... Read More

Thereto I Pledge Thee My Troth

Saturday, February 10, 2024
While I like to reflect on the beauty of a January snowfall in the homeland (Canada), not so in Texas where snow flurries usually mean nothing more than icy roads... Read More

Hesed: The Kindness of God

Wednesday, November 01, 2023
If you are over 50 and grew up in a Southern Baptist Church, you surely have a memory of standing in Sunday School, or gasp! the whole church in the... Read More

Confession, Repentance, and Renewal

Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Here we are, seven weeks into 2021—a year we desperately hoped for throughout the last one. Most of us have been forever changed by the events of 2020. It is... Read More

Passover...A Love We Can't Deny

Thursday, April 09, 2020
The sun was setting, and the meal had been prepared. Jesus and His friends gathered around a table and began to take part in the most significant unfolding of events... Read More

Lent - A True Fast

Thursday, February 27, 2020
The word Lent is derived from the Anglo Saxon word lencten which points to the lengthening of days we begin to experience as spring approaches, and is translated spring. Lent... Read More

Is Thy Heart Right with God?

Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Somewhere, sometime in my lifetime, I heard these words sung in prayerful probing either by one of my grandmothers or my mother:“Have thy affections been nailed to the cross?  Is... Read More

I'm Glad Jesus Hasn't Returned

Thursday, May 30, 2019
Think about it—if Jesus had returned last Wednesday at 2:53 p.m. it would have been stunningly glorious, profound, accompanied by a huge exhaled relief from the world as we know... Read More

Can Americans Claim 2 Chronicles 7:14?

Thursday, February 15, 2018
A recent Facebook post has me shaking my head:California is on fire, Oregon is on fire, Montana is on fire, areas of Canada are on fire, Texas is underwater, Idaho... Read More