“Daddy, will we make it?” This was white-knuckle trauma, at least to the eight-year-old daughter riding shotgun. But fumes were enough to get dad’s little yellow Chevy Luv truck across that busy intersection and into the gas station lot. Fumes were sufficient to get us to the pump. Like sufficient grace. Grace enough. Sufficient. Do…
We will all serve God’s purpose one way or another. But will it be like Judas or John? Will he use our rebellious sin to serve him or will we delight to do God’s will? Surely the wrath of man shall praise you. —Psalm 76:10a (ESV) God many times gets up in the world on…
Why is it we can so easily say yes to big, exceptional things, but trip over the little, ordinary things? Why is doing the the mundane with joy so hard?
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. Proverbs 16:33 Lots are the old-time equivalent for dice, I gather. And Scripture says God decides how the dice land. In other words, Romans 8:28. God works all things- good things and bad things, painful and sinful things, even seemingly random…