Two Sad Tales of Pride and the Danger for Christians
March 1, 2021One Year Wisdom Challenge #8 Can you think of a time when your pride caused you to tumble? I’ve got skads of personal stories on that topic, which I’ve shared in previous posts. Oh my goodness, the times I’ve fallen on my face because of stupid pride… Today, let me share two tragic accounts from history to set the stage for what God placed on my heart. The first one took place during the Civil War. The second one took place more recently, off the coast of Russia. During the Battle of the Wilderness in the Civil War, Union general…
How Christians Lose Their Creds When They Fudge the Numbers
One Year Wisdom Challenge #8 Why do we all love an underdog-who-wins story? A David and Goliath story? We like to see the little guy win an uneven, usually unfair match up. Why? Because we are the little guy. Much…
Hope for A Culture in Chaos- When Wise God-Followers Keep Their Standards High.
One Year Wisdom Challenge #7 Does it seem like restraints and barriers have been removed from our culture? Politicians lying and breaking promises are considered normal. Cities and businesses are vandalized and destroyed, in the name of justice and equality.…
When Christians Feel that God’s Justice is Slow or Non-existent
One Year Wisdom Challenge #5 Have you ever felt that life is incredibly unfair? Have you ever personally experienced injustice? Maybe you were hauled into court when you were innocent of any crime. Maybe you lost a position or promotion…
How Wisdom Can Protect a God-Follower
One Year Wisdom Challenge #5 God and I argued about my topic today. Well, mostly me. The rest of February, we will deal with the topic of injustice and imbalanced scales which seems to be at a tipping point right…
God-followers Must Choose Between Wisdom or Pride
The 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…
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…