I took my seventeen-month-old grandson to Spirit Ranch yesterday. Not only does the property have a creek complete with fountains, it is also stocked with several families of peafowl. Judah, who is drawn to all living things, was mesmerized by the brightly colored peacocks. Not content to experience their beauty from a distance, Judah walked right up …
Ready for the Day
“They chose someone with no experience!” Alyssa wailed to her mother. The shock of the statement hit Scarlet as hard as it had her daughter. As a rising high school senior, Alyssa should have been a shoo-in for captain of the flag team. The only girl in her school with three years experience on flags, she had worked …
Submission as Freedom; Part II
I knew you’d come back for more. Chad Berry got us thinking yesterday about this whole issue of submitting and resisting, huh? Well, let’s pick up where he left off. Ready, set…… ——————————— “Lord.” That’s another strange word to our 21st century ears. We have little context in which to place it. It means “ruler” or “master.” God has …
Submission as Freedom: Part 1
You are in for a major treat over the next three days and we have a man of both “heart and pen” with us. I first met Chad Berry when he spent several weeks in Taiwan one summer. Originally from Alabama, Chad ended up on a team of volunteers from South Carolina. Isn’t it just like our Father to …
Three Important Steps
In-room coffee machines are my friend when I travel. Granted, the quality is somewhat sub-par, especially to fresh roasted beans. Yet, just having one of those little one-cup drippers does wonders on those days when the alarm gets me out of bed, but doesn’t wake me up. Recently, I had one of those early mornings and I …
The Torch at the Tip of Your Tongue
“How can you lose your children within your own house?” I panicked. Yet, the more I searched, the more stumped I was. My five-year-old and three-year-old were nowhere to be found. Being new in a foreign country didn’t help my growing sense of alarm. Although we lived in a walled compound, kidnap scenarios crept into my thoughts. I’d …
Leading is not telling
“He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His Name Sake” (Psalm 23:3). Whether we are already a leader or want to be one, the task before us includes leading those under our care. Psalm 23:3 gives us direction as to just how the guidance takes place. Look at the pathway cut into the mountainside by …
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