Posts from January 2022
JANUARY 26, 2022
Dear Friends, This week, I got a sneak peek at the workbook the ladies will be using for the spring Women’s Bible Study from the book of Psalms. I’ll have information about the study for you here in a bit. But I’ve been thinking today about the title on the workbook. It’s “Glad Adoration.” The title brought to mind the great German hymn from the late 1600s “Praise To The Lord, The Almighty” which includes the line “All ye who hear,…
JANUARY 20, 2022
Dear Friends, When I wrote my book Love Like You Mean It, I included an extended quote from a man who is widely considered America’s most important and original philosophical theologian, Jonathan Edwards. His book Charity And Its Fruits is a classic work on 1 Cor. 13. You can’t go wrong reading and quoting Edwards, right? Well, maybe. My editor, whose job it is to look out for me as an author sent me an email asking if I was sure I wanted to include…
January 12, 2022
Dear Friends, Have you ever heard that we only use about 10% of our brains? Yeah, apparently that’s not true. According to the good folks at Wonderopolis, human beings use virtually every part of their brains. Moreover, over the course of an average day, we use nearly 100% of our brains. It’s a different story when it comes to our smart phones. At least it is for me. I know there is a whole ton of stuff my smart phone is capable of doing…
January 5, 2022
Dear Friends, It is the time of year when most of us at least think about resolutions. A new year can trigger a fresh start. At the age of 19, Jonathan Edwards made a list of 70 resolutions that he purposed would guide his life. His intention was to read the list every week to keep himself pointed in the right direction. His list included goals relating to his personal spiritual development, relationships, how he would manage his life and time and character qualities…