1 Thessalonians 5:14

Happy Christmas, blog readers, followers and commentators,Thanks so much for reading my blog, and for your comments and encouragement.I have written a personal blog, so some of this may be old news, but anyway, here’s our year.WORK—The biggest positive change in our lives occurred the month I began blogging, April 2010. Roy decided to resign […]…

As I sat on my screened-in porch early one morning, I was taken aback with the beauty surrounding me. I held a steamy cup of coffee in my hand and placed my open, well-worn Bible in my lap. As if on cue, as had been our routine for the past several weeks, a visitor hopped from the shrubbery and onto the night-cooled patio. “Good morning, Peter,” I cooed to the little brown bunny. “How are you today?” I just love bunnies, I mused.…

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everythin……

The topic of violence has been on my mind for a few weeks. I wonder if violence is ever acceptable for Christians. Are there times when Christians should take up arms and fight for a just cause? It……

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you~ Amos 5:14 In the span of a single year the ISIS terrorist group has gone from being a practically u……

A couple of weeks ago I came across an article I’ve been thinking about ever since. Over at the Gospel Coalition, Karen Swallow Prior published a piece titled, “Christian Hospitality in the Age of ‘They’re Not Welcome Anymore, Anywhere.’” Prior is an English professor at Liberty University and writes all over the place. I’m looking forward to diving into her new book, On Reading Well, when it comes out in September. Reflecting on the Red Hen event, and others that followed, where Sarah Huck……

Sitting at a red light the other day, I watched a young man painstakingly set up a small camera in a local park. He adjusted the tripod several times, achieving just the right angle for the stunt he was about to perform. He waited while an elderly couple walked out of the frame, before crouching, …

“in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (I Thessalonians 5:18). Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica concerning the coming day of the Lord. The day of t……

For the record, I am not a dolt, nor am I the public-health equivalent of a flat-earther. I get the shared benefits of needle exchange programs. I understand that diseases passed by dirty needles a……

The Christian life may be a marathon, but it’s also a team sport.…