Love in a Time of Covid Week #3 The Bride Jesus Loves
The Bible begins with a wedding, ends with a wedding, and is shot through with pictures of a faithful Bridegroom loving an unfaithful bride. This Bridegroom has the power to ...
Love in a Time of Covid #2 (He Who Overcomes)
This week is about overcoming, and I've been reading a book about two women who truly were overcomers when they were taken captive in Iran for their Christianity. What was ...
Introduction: #1 “Love in a Time of Covid” (Overcoming thru Revelation)
I remember when I was a young girl looking at the photographs in Life Magazine of the 5 martyred missionaries in the jungles of Ecuador. That was one of the early ...
Reflecting on the Poetry of Christmas
Before we leave 2020, I'd like you to reflect, with help of some beautiful poetry, on the beauty of God being made flesh. But first, I want to tell you ...
An Advent of Holy Contemplation #4 He Made Himself Nothing
This year may be the simplest Christmas we've known, but that may get us closer to the One who made Himself nothing for us. Perhaps you will be with some relatives ...
An Advent of Holy Contemplation #3 God and Sinners Reconciled!
I was reading an old article entitled "England Before And After Wesley," and how dramatically the doctrine of grace banished the darkness with light. For example, slavery was rampant in ...
An Advent of Holy Contemplation #2 Fear Not!
If we listen to our souls we might hear: How can this Christmas possibly be wonderful? Will I or the people I love get Covid? Will there be enough money ...
An Advent of Holy Contemplation #1 Sometimes A Light Surprises!
Christmas during the pandemic will be different in some ways for each of us. We may not be with loved ones, we may not be participating in joyful live worship ...
# 10 MAKING LAMENT PERSONAL
This has been such a personal study. As our Dawn said, "We really get to know one another through our laments." I also was so delighted when a personal friend ...
#9 ROAD MAP TO GRACE
I woke this morning to post what I had written, and it had disappeared! So this will be a simpler post than usual, and I ask for your grace. We ...
#8 Unearthing Idols (Lam. 4)
How relevant is Lamentations 4 to America, indeed, to our whole world today. God shook Jerusalem. And when He did, peoples' idols were unearthed, as they faced the fact ...
#7 The Great Hymn We Misunderstood
I remember my surprise to learn that Lamentations 3:22-23, which inspired the lyrics to "Great is Thy Faithfulness" was the end of a lament. I thought it was simply a ...
# 6 Pour Out Your Heart Like Water!
When I pray with my charismatic brothers and sisters, I feel like a dripping faucet next to a roaring waterfall. Jeremiah tells us to CRY OUT! POUR OUT YOUR HEART ...
#5 Beginning Lamentations
We'll spend two weeks on the opening chapter of Part II: Learning to Lament We need to not only learn to lament, we need to learn from lament. Why? Indeed, is this what God is ...
# 4 God Moves In A Mysterious Way
Last week we contemplated the lyrics of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," this week we'll contemplate the rich lyrics of Cowper's "God Moves In A Mysterious Way." I've been working on ...