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I WASN’T MR. SENSITIVE in my younger days. Actually, still today, I can be direct. And by “direct” I mean filterless. Like a Camel cigarette. Take the little Post-It size limericks and sayings I pasted to the front of my desk back when I worked my …
I APOLOGIZE for comparing first-time visitors in church to dogs. But the comparison did come to mind a few days ago. My daughter, Becca, has a new pup: a border collie named Tucker. Becca is going to be tied up over the Labor Day weekend, and she …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Debbie Curto, who gets a free book for her trouble. I’ve condensed her question quite a bit because Debbie gave me lots of info, to help me understand what she was talking about. Here’s her question: …
MONDAY WAS A TOUGH DAY for me. Emotionally. I blogged that wrenching Bible Q&A from a friend of mine in terrible physical pain. Nancy L: ‘I wish I could just die.’ Then I got emails and private messages from others—friends as well as …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It’s wrenching enough. But it’s made even more so for me because it comes from a friend. Here’s the question I got on Friday from Nancy L. “Why does God seem to allow His people to suffer? Even when He sees they are …
I WONDERED if folks in Bible times thanked God at the end of their work week. Friday was the end of their week, too. At sundown on Friday, Sabbath began—24 hours of no work. Just rest and worship. Ladies didn’t even have to cook. Meals were prepared …
IT’S A TAD UNSETTLING that no matter what I say in my weekday blog about God or the Bible, when I post the blog link on my Facebook page, it attracts only a pittance of the hits that I’ll get when I post photos of dogs in my family. I’m thinking I …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Dini Garcia in Florida. She gets a free book for asking a question that made the cut for the Monday Question of the Week feature. Here’s her question: I have a friend who has had a terrible loss. As a …
I HAD LUNCH with my son yesterday. We talked about the Boston Marathon bombing, of course. I asked if he had watched the news and looked at the online photos. He had. He cried. Like many of us. He said one brief scene in a video clip tipped him over. …
I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT. I was still dealing with pushback from yesterday morning’s blog post titled, “Where is God when bullets fly?” and then up pops the news flash: Bomber strikes Boston Marathon. A childhood friend of mine was hoping to run in that …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Erin Drew, who wins a free book for her trouble. The recent tragedy in Connecticut [a shooting that killed 20 children and 6 adults in Sandy Hook Elementary School] brought up this question from my fiancé, …
THERE’S A SPARROW ten feet from my head. It’s perched on a budding redbud tree outside the window of my second-story home office. Buddy the Dog lies sprawled on the carpeted floor behind me, eyes closed. So the sparrow can rest in peace on its …
