Thunder and Lightning

When he speaks in the thunder,     the heavens roar with rain. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth.     He sends the lightning with the rain     and releases the wind from his storehouses. Jeremiah 51:16 (NLT)  When we moved to Arizona ten years ago, a family...

Messy House

So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God. 1 Peter 2:1-3 (MSG) My house is normally...

I can’t. I CAN.

For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13 (NLT) Most of the time I have a pretty good handle on the ups and downs that enter our lives. I’ve called the ambulance four times for Mark in the past 10 years. (Thankfully, not...

Stand!

And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.” I Samuel 8:7 (NIV) For a political junkie like me, this is an amazing time. Yet, in the thirty years serving in...

The Goal

Brothers and sisters, I know that I have not yet reached that goal, but there is one thing I always do. Forgetting the past and straining toward what is ahead, I keep trying to reach the goal and get the prize for which God called me through Christ to the life above....