Fork in the Road
“Stay on the path that the Lord your God has commanded you to follow. Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the land you are about to enter and occupy.” Deuteronomy 5:33 (NLT) “There’s a fork in the road but you never take it.”[1] It may depend upon our perspective or it may depend upon our character,…
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Two views on availabilty: “Why on God’s green Earth would you be on Twitter? Because first of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available, right?”1 —George Clooney speaking to Esquire “Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to…
Continue readingEntrusted with a Commission
This blog post will be of particular interest to those who are pastors and those who aspire to be pastors. There is much confusion about the role of a pastor and indeed the role of the church in this present time. These words by Donald Bloesch1 are encouraging, humbling, inspiring, and terrifying. These words are worthy…
Continue readingNo Man is an Island
“No man is an island,” wrote John Donne in 1624. His poem by the same name suggests that the things that each of us do affect others around us. We are all part of the community of humankind and what I do has an effect on the whole. I thought of this the other day…
Continue readingAs To The Lord
The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman [cleaning lady], become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly “as to the Lord.” This does not, of course, mean that it is for anyone a mere toss up whether he should sweep rooms or…
Continue readingGod at Work
Our community of faith was blessed to see God’s redemptive hand at work this past week. Some of us have been serving a man who is a contemporary “leper” and an outcast from society. He is a man who spent a long time in prison for things he has done. We have walked with him…
Continue readingA Lady of Little Faith
I have been reading The Brother’s Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.* It is a brilliant book that will generously reward any reader. You can expect to read a few blog entries dealing with insights from this book. Dostoevsky demonstrates remarkable knowledge of the human psyche in the chapter entitled “A Lady of Little Faith.” An elder…
Continue readingPurpose in Life
In his book, “At The Crossroads,” Charlie Peacock quotes John Henry Newman as saying, God has created me to do Him some service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. Therefore Iwill trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away.…
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