The beauty of only

Jesus responded, “Go away, Satan, because it’s written, ‘You will worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’” (Matthew 4:10, CEB) “I was talking to a friend the other day and the subject of families came up. I asked him if he had any siblings and he stated...

Deep dive

“After he said these things, Jesus was deeply disturbed and testified, ‘I assure you, one of you will betray me.’” (John 13:21, CEB)My wife and I are a few weeks away from our 23rd wedding anniversary. While we have many wonderful memories of our wedding day, I think...

A surprising new thing

Look! I’m doing a new thing; now it sprouts up; don’t you recognize it? (Isaiah 43:19a, CEB)“How long do you want to keep this car?”Those are words you really don’t want to hear when you take your auto into the mechanic for what you think is just one thing, but turns...

The beauty of being awe-full

I was in show choir in high school (if one searches long enough, one could probably find pictures of the group with the boys wearing powder-blue tuxedos) and one of our big trips was leaving our Iowa small town to come to the big city of Chicago to perform, if I’m...