What if we thought about prayer as “the language of the relationship”
Derek Maul
arrogance and wisdom are mutually exclusive
“Wisdom requires humility, peace, putting others first, and sincerity.”
two prayers for worship
Two prayers for Sunday worship
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts”
Jesus is God’s invitation. When we chose to follow we must ask for the courage to be faithful. Because it is not an easy road but a challenging and often treacherous climb.
The state of the bird feeder #StateoftheUnion
All the noise on the Internet today is about the president’s State of the Union speech Tuesday evening. Everyone seems so worried, so concerned, so anxious either for or against the ideas put forth by one party or the other
Change Your Hearts and Lives! Trust this Good News!
this particular Monday morning, in a nation dominated by cynicism and intransigence, it’s more important than ever that we change our hearts and lives, and that we trust this good news. Now is the time!
Everything looks pure under six inches of snow #WinterStorm
Wake Forest is beautiful to start with, but this week’s addition of a pure coating of lovely crystals made everything picture-postcard perfect. It was the ideal North Carolina snow:
The new future for this blog (I’m kind of a crying stone)
My bottom line here has not changed from when I first started. I want to communicate, clearly, a sense of the adventure that my life has become in response to following Jesus. And in so doing I want to encourage those of you who are reading to accept God’s invitation too.
a little help with a Christmas shopping idea…
I may or may not have done a deliberately obvious photo-shop job on the “must read” meme that goes with this post! Anyway, for today I’d like to highlight two books that are – in my opinion – legitimately “can’t miss.”
“Not so good as a chicken-biscuit” – dog-blog book review from Scout Labradoodle
“Well I tried to eat a copy once but dad wouldn’t let me finish it. So I guess I wouldn’t know.”
