Tag: God

  • When the Cows Come Home

    When the Cows Come Home

    On returning to God.

  • Blurb for a Fellow Blogger (3)

    Blurb for a Fellow Blogger (3)

    If you’re on the look out for a devotional collection that plants a scriptural seed and provides the water and fertilizer too, this is it! Here’s a second excellent book, by my blogger friend Bridget Thomas, that contains thirty short chapters, each dedicated to a different facet of the believer’s identity in Christ. A key…

  • Pray and Fast or Praying Fast?

    Pray and Fast or Praying Fast?

    The sleek sports car in front of me had a novel personalized license plate: PRYNFST. As a Christian, I immediately took this as an exhortation to pray and fast. After all, Jesus told His disciples this was a source of great spiritual power (Mark 9:29). Ultimately, I think the Corvette driver meant he was “praying…

  • The Mystery of the Rain Barrel

    The Mystery of the Rain Barrel

    We have rain barrels at our home that we use to water our flowers in the spring and summer. Two February’s ago, one froze solid–cracking right down the middle. (It’s warm enough here that winterizing things is usually unnecessary). This past fall, I took no chances. Both barrels were fully drained back in November–before the…

  • The Lord is My Shepherd–Kinda Sorta

    The Lord is My Shepherd–Kinda Sorta

    confessions of a former far away follower

  • Slippery When Happy

    Slippery When Happy

    It was the fall of 2007, and many of my friends were upgrading to a new Apple device called the iPhone. I marveled at the 3.5” multi-touch screen and the little square icons called apps. Suddenly, my Motorola flip phone seemed out-of-date. A few years later, someone in the waiting room at my doctor’s office…