I live in a farming community. I have learned to measure my year by the activity in the fields. Winters are quiet with snow covered fields. You know when spring has come, because the canals fill with water and the tractors are in the fields. The fields require tending throughout all the seasons and stages …
Love. Isn’t that the great subject that floats out there in front of us and never seems to go away. To be loved is probably the most innate and basic of human needs. Nobody is exempt from its yearning. We long for people to love us in a sincere unconditional manner. But, someone to love …
I have a degree and a job that affords me a title. Sometimes I think that because of this I deserve a certain kind of treatment. It makes me a little smug. “I have accomplished something you have not. Aren’t you impressed?” This is not the way of Jesus Philippians 2:5-11 (ESV) 5 Have this mind …
Here in America we value personal autonomy above just about everything. In some ways it is an illusion. We can not have our way in everything. Many things work together to place limitations on what we can or cannot do. We have relationships, we need money, we have limited talents, we have physical limitations, and …
Defining God to our own expectations has become the most prevalent religion in the United States. It is common to hear “I cannot believe in a god who…….” The result is that we either throw God out because He is not who we want Him to be or we just redefine Him according to our …
