This blog begins with a letter for a friend. She asked me to put something together saying her oldest son had been dedicated at our church. This was for a new church they started attending last year.
I couldn’t remember the exact date of the baby dedication but I finally tracked down the day and time [...]
All articles in category: "God's will, Judgment, Making life count, Observations"
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Keeping track of vapor trails
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God’s front lawn
With all the recent financial woes, 401K plans nose-diving like kamikazes, Wall Street losing its mind and who knows about the future, I had to conclude: whether it’s my yard or my friend’s yard, my mother-in-law’s car or the new Honda we just purchased, the flat-screen monitor I picked up at a garage sale or the house I’m living in right now, it all belongs to the Lord. The tall fescue belongs to Jesus. I’m just asking for the ability to enjoy it while these toes of mine still grip the earth.
1 Cor. 7, 1 Timothy 6, ascetics, backyard, Bible, Christian, comfort, Dave Howard, don't hope in wealth, emotions, engrossed, enjoy things of this world, financial woes, garage sale, gloomy, God, grass, happy, how does it make me feel, Jesus, Jim Elliot, loose grip, morose, our house, soft grasp, tall fescue, temporary versus eternal, turf grass, wealth, Wheaton
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Brenda, Eddie and the realities of life
Lurking below the subconscious of every human being is this fear of what awaits on the other side of this life. We try to cover it up. We try to make life about riding around the diner. But it just won’t work. We know there’s more to it. In the end, Brenda and Eddie can’t keep it together and divorce in the same summer in which they are married.
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