The focus of our church the last few weeks has been the celebration of Easter. For some, the celebration started weeks before and hit a climax at Fat Tuesday and paused until Easter Sunday. For others, it began on Ash Wednesday and was steady until Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday when it kicked into second… Continue reading A Month of Sunday’s: 3 – Encouraging Concluding

Job 3:10 For the day did not seal the womb’s doors on me, Nor curtain wretchedness from my eyes.   Verse 10 wraps up the first section of poetry while at the same time introducing the next round of lamenting. From a timing perspective I have just finished transitioning from chapter 8 to chapter 9;… Continue reading Job 29: S 20: Job 3:10 – He is Risen, So I Live

1 Peter 2:7-10 Revised Standard Version 7 To you therefore who believe, he is precious, but for those who do not believe, “The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner,” 8 and “A stone that will make men stumble, a rock that will make them fall”; for they stumble because they… Continue reading 1 Peter – Lesson 9 – 2:7-10 – New Chosen People

“Be Able to Comfort” – “Trust in Me” – “God has Power (7000)” – “Draw Near” – “Not Like Christ” Back when I was new to all this, I made a list of topic ideas. Five years later I still have not completed each of those and at this rate, I may never.  My mentor… Continue reading Daily Summaries: A new level of randomness 6: The Power to Comfort

Somewhere over vacation I fell behind. I have a plan, I want to follow it, but I deviate often. With maturity I have put speed lower on the list and I use my plan as a guide and now try to learn to not be stressed by the gap. Slow, small steps.   1 Peter… Continue reading 1 Peter – Lesson 8 – 2:4-6 – A Suggested Title Please

“Joyful Countenance” – “Saints Struggle” – “Beware Self-Confidence” – “People, Not Stereotypes” –  “His Work” I finally made an appointment with a specialist to look at my shoulder. It has only been 29 years. Hopefully they do not have to cut it all out and give me a new fake one. This flows into one… Continue reading Daily Summaries: A new level of randomness 5: Learning Still, with Help

I read a headline that Major League Baseball had decided to move the All-Star Game and the draft out of Atlanta. In the age of COVID, I assumed it had to do with a new viral issue and wanted to learn what I needed to “fear” now. Little did I know the cause was not… Continue reading Random XII – The Agonizing Death of Baseball and a race card

Job 8 Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke out saying: How long will you mouth such notions?                 Your utterances are a blustering wind. Would God pervert justice?                 Would the Almighty pervert what is right? Surely your children sinned against Him,                 So, He dispatched them for their transgression. But if you yourself would earnestly… Continue reading Job 28: Job 8 – The Amalgamation

 1 Peter 2:1-13 Revised Standard Version 1 So put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander. 2 Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation; 3 for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 1 – What is your First Impression? We… Continue reading 1 Peter – Lesson 7 – 2:1-3 – A Suggested Process