Posted: April 26, 2021
“Time, oh time; where did you go.” Pozo-Seco Singers – 1964 In the early 60’s I was really into folk music. I listened to it and sang it. One popular song was called “Time.” Its lyrics reflect on a subject with which I’ve always been interested. Time is always about
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Posted: April 20, 2021
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…” Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV) We all completely missed Spring in 2020. Oh, we had pollen on our cars and Spring flowers. But do you recall the empty streets and sidewalks; the shuttered churches and restaurants and stores. I think that is
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Posted: April 12, 2021
27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither labor nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 28 Now if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe
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Posted: April 7, 2021
He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you, But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8 (NASB) But let justice roll down like waters, And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Amos 5:24 (NASB) In this season of
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Posted: March 29, 2021
Again, I ask the question: Why are we here? Right now? I discovered another most important answer to this question this very week. Some context: my youngest here in Nashville called to tell me he had been diagnosed with appendicitis. As we waited for him to be taken to surgery, I texted our family to
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Posted: March 22, 2021
Is anyone happy about what’s happening in Washington these days? No one that I know. Over the past few years the buffoonery of our elected has affected all of us, so it seems that it’s time for the people to demand some accountability. Well, that’s the job of elections, you say. But you see, that
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Posted: March 16, 2021
The latest internet wellness craze is “manifesting” – thinking your way to a better life. Whether it works or not isn’t really the point. That positive things will happen to you if only you think enough positive thoughts is crammed with unscientific New Ageisms that feel like truth no matter how untrue they
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Posted: March 9, 2021
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Cecil Frances Alexander (1848) I love to travel. I love the natural beauty of it all. I love that our world varies so with the time of the year. I’m fascinated that light
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Posted: March 2, 2021
Does God Hear our Prayers? Well, does He? God said to Hezekiah, “This is what the Lord, the God of your father David says: ‘I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I am going to heal you.’” (II Kings 20:5 NASB) And James wrote, “A prayer of a righteous person,
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Posted: February 23, 2021
Lord, how I need a hug. Since the COVID-19 distancing guidelines went into effect last March I haven’t had a real hug from a friend anywhere. I realize this is a shared need; all of us crave human interaction. But for a southerner, this is unusually cruel. And for an extrovert southerner who lives alone
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