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The Danger of Living Under Your Assumed Name (a confessional post)

Are you someone who tries very hard? Are you a person who loves Jesus dearly, reads His Word daily, and wants to be found applying that Word to Your life? Are you, like me, someone who sometimes gets caught up in the hard trying, the striving, the effort of this life with Christ? This post, …[ read more ]

Subjected to Futility – On Conversations about the Nashville Shooting

Six victims and the shooter all dead in Nashville. Seven families grieve. Unimaginable suffering for those who loved them. Lives forever changed. The rush to pontificate on this tragedy takes my breath away. Tweets, monologues, news conferences, editorials, and opinion posts commenting as if they know why, as if they know who, as if they …[ read more ]

Hiding from People I Love (Post 2 in the Third Chapter Spiritual Disciplines Series)

The best people annoy me. It’s admittedly my failing, not theirs. Thanks to the Holy Spirit, I’m mostly able to avoid eye rolling, sighing, glaring, and raising my eyebrows in group settings, but that’s testimony to His work, not mine. Hey, I enjoy my own company. I agree with myself all the time and frequently …[ read more ]

Third Chapter Spiritual Disciplines

We are going to die. That’s what I said on Sunday to my best friend. Yeah, I can be cheery that way. Surrounded that day by my children, their children, and the youngest generation at our church, I had cause to consider my years. Aging isn’t for sissy-Marys. Neither, however, is aging a curse, but …[ read more ]

He Gets Us and the Double-Edged Sword     

This morning as I read God’s Word and prayed, Jesus called me out on some heart issues. I’ve been at this following-Jesus life for decades. My younger years were pockmarked with struggles against immorality, impurity, godly lifestyle choices and other engagements with sins typical of young adults (especially coming up in the 60’s, 70’s, and …[ read more ]