As we begin a new day and head into a weekend, please know: Right now, at this very moment, God is reigning from his eternal throne. This is one of those occasional reminders that all the quote graphics I share from day-to-day are available to print or download for free in high definition at SquareQuotes. (Yesterday on the blog: Three New Tools That Make a Huge Difference) The Great Winnowing “A lot of people aren’t coming back to church. Let …
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Many years ago I discovered a set of tools and procedures that allowed me to be most productive. Since then, I have pretty much stuck with those same tools and with that same system, save for a few minor tweaks here and there. (See Do More Better) In the past year, though, I have discovered a few new tools that have swiftly made a big difference to my life. These have not replaced any of my existing tools, but instead …
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Grace and peace to you today, my friends. Afghanistan, the Pulpit, and the Myth of Progress “If we’re to truly remember the world’s tragedies in our ministries, what we need to retrieve isn’t simply what our Christian forebears taught in their ministries. We need to also retrieve their sense of the world which lay behind their ministries – a sense that the world is unstable, violent, and harsh.” Weakness May Be Your Greatest Strength This is good and helpful: “It’s …
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Good morning. May the Lord bless and keep you throughout this day. (Yesterday on the blog: We Are Never Without Beauty) Do You Know Where You’re At? Sylvia Schroeder reflects on her father-in-law’s confusion. “‘I don’t know where we’re at,’ Phil’s dad used to say from the front seat of his handicapped van. In his later days my father-in-law, sweet and intelligent seemed to live in an anxious state of lost. He leaned far forward against the taut seatbelt, and …
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I stepped out my front door this morning and stepped into a veritable work of art. I stepped out for my morning walk and stepped into God’s own gallery. The sun was just beginning to peer over the eastern horizon, its earliest light warm and brilliant gold. The clouds that stretched across the sky faded from east to west, from thick to thin, from heavy to light. Each cloud caught the golden rays and reflected them in a fiery swirl …
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