Monthly Archives: May 2022
When I was eight, I recited John McCrae’s poem, “In Flanders Field” at a ceremony in the Hudson Memorial Cemetery on Memorial Day. I memorized the poem, and for the first time, stood before a crowd and heard my voice magnified through a microphone. I’m sure I was more self-centered than should be, and really did not comprehend the topic of the poem. But, I heard applause for me. It should have been for those who died saving our freedom.
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When we look around this week, what do we see in our culture?
Do we hear notices of wars and rumors of wars? Do we hear constantly about how the massacre of teachers and students in Texas could have been prevented? Do we see the prices on everything literally from soup to nuts to gasoline rising daily? Do we acknowledge that now that summer is here, all ahead will be roses and candy?
2nd Corinthians 4:19 says: “We fix our…..
Once again, we grieve. This time we lost children, teachers, and may lose a grandmother. We pray for this close-knit town in Texas. Our hearts are breaking.
Sorrow for Lives Lost 
Almighty Father, Creator of all things,
We call upon Your Name in supplication,
For we so need Your Presence this day.
Your word tells us that the death…..
I was thinking this morning that everyday things and activities can preach sermons to ourselves. Here’s mine today.
On Tuesday mornings I generally go to breakfast with a group of Christian friends. I leave the house just before seven, and we catch up with each other’s lives, eat a Cracker Barrel breakfast, and leave around nine, encouraged and refreshed for the day.
I thought about the process today and preached a sermon to myself. Here’s generally, how it went.
First,…..
This weekend was a whirlwind of activity, travel, family, dance, music, and few minutes of respite. Worship for us was both in person and livestreamed, and those times of community, song, prayer, scripture, honor to our graduates, a wonderful sermon about decision-making by Pastor Jerry Klemm, and a season of intercessory prayer provided respite from the whirlwind we as a family experienced in two short days.
For hubby and myself, both in our eighties, it was exhausting. No less stressful,…..
In 2016 I wrote a book after researching water imagery in the Bible. There are well over 700 references to God using water to show His abundant providence, His retribution, and times of drought when men returned to God for succor and help.
Hymnwriters also use this imagery. as well. In this time of upheaval in politics and cultural life, yet…..
I love references in the Bible to Angel Armies and the contemporary song’s chorus that says “I know who goes before me; I know who stands behind; The God of angel armies, is always by my side.” (Christ Tomlin). I was just reading Psalm 78, you know the one which recounts all the times when God has won the wars even though man keeps defying His commands. It talks about manna being the food of the angels.
I have several…..
We spend a lot of time educating ourselves, don’t we? It starts when parents rush their children into learning colors, the alphabet, shapes, and phonics, well before the years of schooling designed to teach those things. Repetition becomes boring to those who’ve already mastered those basics. Teachers struggle to get everyone “one the same page,” preparing their young charges for standardized tests that prove little except what a child can do in that forty minutes on that particular day. Allergy…..
When we think of our lives, day by day, and we know Almighty God’s holiness, we are called to ask Him for mercy. The Bible is very clear that the atonement of Jesus providea a path to forgiveness and God’s saving mercy for us. What a marvelous thought. This weekend, as you ponder this thought, find a Bible-preaching church which honors our sovereign Lord and worships the Savior and honors the Holy Spirit, and embrace the blessing of mercy.
My…..
One of the greatest things I understand about God is that He always was, Alpha, and always will be, Omega. He, and He alone, created order out of chaos. Today, I share an original Psalm called Order. May it bless your day and our lives as we journey through a world that seems so chaotic: COVID, inflation, food shortages (especially baby food), war and threats of war, and crime in our streets. These are not of God, but of man’s…..