Posts from October 2023
October 25, 2023
Dear Friends, My wife and I have found ourselves pretty regularly reminding ourselves in recent years that most of the problems we face are first world problems. You know the kinds of things I’m talking about, right? The package from Amazon doesn’t arrive on time, as promised. The movie you’re trying to stream keeps buffering. The service at the restaurant was so slow! You had to go to a second grocery store to get your extra crunchy peanut butter because the first store was out. Think about…
October 18, 2023
Dear Friends, This week, I’m passing along something I read online. It’s a Facebook post written by Greg Stier, the founder of Dare2Share, an evangelistic outreach aimed primarily at teens and young adults. Greg posted about parenting, and I thought “I can relate.” I think his counsel is wise. Here’s what he wrote: Early on in our marriage my wife and I took one of those raising children courses that promised certain outcomes if certain principles were consistently followed. We did our best to…
October 11, 2023
Dear Friends, Our God is a holy God. Holier than you have ever imagined. The God of scripture is defined by His holiness. His love is a holy love. His mercy is a holy mercy. His justice is a holy justice. His righteousness is a holy righteousness. Where He stands is holy ground. He dwells on His holy mountain and is worshipped in His holy temple. His name is holy. His law is holy, and those who are his followers are a…
October 4, 2023
Dear Friends, When he was elected President in 1960, John F. Kennedy was 43 years old. He had two toddlers at the time, and the media loved showing the Leader of the Free World in the Oval Office with his children scampering about. He may have had a Secret Service detail protecting him and a secretary scheduling his every appointment, but his children had priority access to their father. I’m sure there were times when the children were told…