Posted in Patience on Jan 7th, 2015
God is incredibly gracious.
As in gracious far beyond what you and I could imagine.
If anyone ever tells you that they doubt His grace, please sit down with them and discuss Genesis 16-17.
Genesis 16 describes an incredibly foolish and faithless decision by Abram (Abraham before God changed his name) and his wife Sarai (Sarah before […]
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Posted in money on Oct 7th, 2014
There was an article on the Internet yesterday that described the financial struggles that many Baby Boomer retirees are encountering now because of past misplaced priorities.
It is an article that confirms the housing strategy that Lori and I want to have in place whenever our retirement day comes.
As I recall, retired couples who have […]
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Posted in endurance on Sep 11th, 2014
They had lost their homes, their jobs and many of their family and friends. And they had been forced to leave their beloved Jerusalem.
In fact, one of their beloved leaders had been murdered and countless numbers of people they loved had been thrown into prison.
All because of loving and living for a man who […]
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Posted in faithfulness on Sep 5th, 2014
The Old West wasn’t tamed by farmers who quit work at lunchtime.
Instead, there was feeding animals at sunrise, planting seed in the morning, plowing and mending fences in the early afternoon and repairing barns and checking on animals in the late afternoon until it was dark.
Though the order might have varied from farmer to farmer, […]
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Posted in wealth on Aug 22nd, 2014
The Christian who feels he or she has lost everything should try to remember that he or she is rich beyond comprehension.
For no amount of earthly calamity can bankrupt the certainty of God’s promise to the one who remains faithful to Him in the midst of terrible circumstances.
If Christ remains on the throne of our […]
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