Category: Lent

Blessings to everyone today, for this is the day the Lord has made. As an older person who has past 70, I often reply when people ask me in the morning how I am, I say, “As long as I…

I ran across an interesting article today that resonated with my Lenten concerns. It is titled “The Identity Crisis of the Modern American Christian and How to Fix It”. At first, the title put me a bit off, since it…

Today’s New Testament reading was one of the foundational scriptures for Christians in their efforts to maintain their hope and trust in God. It covered the last verses of Romans 8 where Paul asks a very important, somewhat rhetorical question:…

My wife and daughter bought an old, but in good condition, 1984 small Chevy RV. We have been working on it, getting it in shape by painting the inside, doing a little remodeling, and today stripping the old, messy caulking…

A recent show I watched had a story line about a man who fixed things for very significant people. He was going to be forced to go into hiding to protect his family, especially his young daughter. Sitting across the…

It didn’t take till my fifth day for me to miss a post, so this is a belated effort. I didn’t realize I had missed writing last night until I was driving to work this morning. Frustrating to have failed…

In 1 Samuel 12:24 the Lord says, “Only fear the Lord [with awe and profound reverence].” Amplified. We are called to fear only the Lord and pointedly nothing else. There are over a 100 verses along the lines of fear not.  God is…

The problem with trying to do something new every day is that it is easy to forget, since it takes a while to make it a habit, something you remember to do. I almost forgot to post something today, but…

At its root Lent is about prayer. It is a primary discipline encouraged during this time of preparation for Holy Week and the events that drove the culmination of Jesus’ ministry on earth. When asked by his disciples how to…

That time had to come from somewhere, primarily from activities that were more productive avenues of time investment. So, I decided to abandon the game, initially for Lent, but hopefully forever, as God has better things for me to do with what remaining time he has granted me.