God-followers Must Choose Between Wisdom or Pride
January 25, 2021The One Year Wisdom Challenge #4- January 25, 2021 With so much confusion and misinformation concerning world and national events, wisdom is a precious commodity. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have insight and understanding about things swirling around us? Wisdom can sort truth from fiction. Wisdom discerns the true character of another. Wisdom applies God’s truths to confusing circumstances and makes sense of them. The strength of wisdom operating in our lives is completely attainable for every God-follower. He tells us that all through the book of Proverbs. He also tells us that one deadly sin can derail the whole…
How God Followers Can Walk with Wisdom and Not Flounder with Foolishness
One Year Wisdom Challenge #3 Why do search engines like Google, Bing, Duck Duck Go, and others make gazillions of dollars a year in advertising revenues? Why do people spend hours perusing websites like Pinterest and Instagram? Because they are…
Wisdom- Letting Go of Worldly Rhinestones for Heaven’s Gems
One Year Wisdom Challenge # 2 I’m wondering if the reason many of us God-followers lack wisdom is because we’ve bedazzled our hearts and minds with rhinestones of worldly ideas? God’s jewels are in there too, but we struggle to…
The One Year Wisdom Challenge
The One Year Wisdom Challenge- Week One I’m tired of being a fool. Being Satan’s patsy or a victim of my old nature is a fool’s game. I started to feel an intensity about this in 2020 but there were…
Truth-A Gift from Christians to the World
“You can’t handle the truth!” Jack Nicholson “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” Winston Churchill “Half…
How Christians Can Do the Right Thing Even When It’s Hard.
Doing the right thing is often hard. I mean, if it were easy, people would do right all the time, yes? Sometimes it’s scary, even terrifying. Sometimes physically or emotionally exhausting. Sometimes humbling. Sometimes terribly confusing. Even after you’ve…
How Christians Can Overcome Evil with Goodness
“Marley was dead to begin with. There was not doubt whatever about that.” With that opening, Charles Dickens begins his redemptive story of goodness overcoming evil in “A Christmas Carol.” One of my favorite themes in the book is the…
Four Gifts Christians Can Give to the World
There’s a stew of emotions simmering in many of us as we launch the Christmas season of 2020. Thanksgiving already shaped up to be unique for most folks. We aren’t certain what Christmas will look like without some of the…
Comfort and Encouragement for 2020’s Turbulent Waters
The Modern Pilgrim- The Final Chapter- In which Pilgrim rejoins the Good Shepherd and the faithful pilgrims on top of Joy Mountain. There, she discovers that some travelers have gone on to the Celestial City beyond the mountains, to live…
How to Build Bridges Instead of Walls- Reconnecting Divided Christians
The Modern Pilgrim #38- in which Pilgrim leaves travelers led astray by Pride. The sound of their angry arguments fades as she hikes alone towards the Good Shepherd and the rest of the pilgrims. She sees them, at a great…
What Happens When Christians Are as Divided as The World
The Modern Pilgrim #37- In which Pilgrim finds herself at odds with fellow travelers. She becomes tangled in debates about who the Good Shepherd promotes into leadership positions. A group of travelers, including our Pilgrim, begin to argue their ideas.…