Oh, no . . . I cannot wait!

by | Jun 11, 2015 | Lessons Learned, Priorities

Waiting is an anathema to me. A long check-out line in the grocery store or a line at the ATM machine causes me great angst. My mother once told me that cooking was not to be my life's work because the culinary arts required patience. And yet the famous last lines...

Where did my spiritual appetite go?

by | Jun 4, 2015 | Lessons Learned, Surrender

"Many foreign students who come to the United States for their college education are affluent and privileged. This special status has numbed their spiritual appetites. Only when crisis comes, and it will, does the spiritual hunger return." This observation...

Relevance vs. Righteousness

by | May 28, 2015 | Lessons Learned

I love reading daily newspapers to keep abreast of the current affairs of the world. In addition, sports scores and summaries bring me great pleasure. In reading from the world's point of view and in my desire to be relevant, danger can be lurking — becoming...

Living in Community

by | May 21, 2015 | Lessons Learned, Love, Unity

Loving God is easier for me early in the morning alone with Him. In fact, sitting in my comfortable chair reading His Word in the quiet of day, sainthood seems attainable. However, later in the day as pressures mount loving others becomes much more difficult. Loving...