“I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness…” (Isa. 61:10 “For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.” (Ps. 149:4) On Thursday just […]
When Life Is Hard
Throughout the last 21 years that I’ve been a pastor’s wife, people have asked me how Mike and I met. It is a fairy-tale story that didn’t begin until I was thirty. And, like most fairy-tale stories, there are bad parts and good parts woven together, and my story is no different. Here’s how it […]
Oh, Say Can You See?
As I was preparing my breakfast this morning it occurred to me, right out of the blue, what an amazing thing seeing is. I grew up in Southern California, believing that evolution was true and somehow Christianity was true too. The one came from school, the other from home and church. The main thing about […]
Christian? Part 2
When I was a young Christian, I thought that being a disciple of Jesus was like being a SEAL Team member in the church. You know, a super Christian. The ordinary Christian was not godly like the disciples were. However, in the last article, I showed how I had discovered that a Christian is a […]
Christian?
I was chatting with someone recently when I had the opportunity to say that I had become a Christian during my time in the Navy. Of course, the comment was in the context of a whole discussion and was a sort of “in passing” kind of comment. But it occurred to me that the person […]
Serving the Wrong Thing
From Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands, pg. 67.
All Things Become New
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Cor 5:17). What I’ve been describing is called all sorts of things in the Bible, but one of my favorites is new birth. Jesus told Nicodemus that unless he was born again, […]
Wait. What Just Happened?
The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? (Jer 17:9) For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom 6:23) Just a minute ago I said this, “It was because we were self-centered in heart and wanted […]