All the goings on in Iraq, have seemed very distant to me. That is probably due to my limited personal exposure to people who have died or been injured as a result of our presence in that area. But yesterday morning I got an email that one of my classmates from high school had been … Read more
In one of my devotions this morning I found myself reading Deuteronomy 4:29. Great verse, but I wanted a bigger context. So I am sharing the bigger picture with you this morning, in case you, like me, haven’t read those verses for a while. Deuteronomy 4:25:31 – After you have had children and grandchildren and … Read more
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945) Maybe it is because I found myself thinking and reading over the Beatitudes yesterday, but the quote above jumped out at me this morning. When I first read the quote, before looking at Matthew 5 again, … Read more
“When everything we receive from him is received and prized as fruit and pledge of his covenant love, then his bounties, instead of being set up as rivals and idols to draw our heart from him, awaken us to fresh exercises of gratitude and furnish us with fresh motives of cheerful obedience every hour.” … … Read more