September 2020
September 4
Day 174: Short on Hope I participated in a call yesterday (one of several, actually) where the conversation between pastors revolved around: What do we do as leaders going forward? Of course, to envision the future, we have to acknowledge the present. So we mined that question, and tried to get to the bottom of […]
September 3
Day 173: Off Season As an admitted sports fan (junkie) I will also admit to liking the off season/s almost as much as the game season itself. Off season is when players get drafted, traded, released. Baseball calls it the "Hot Stove Season." (I know not why.) The NFL calls it the Draft and the […]
September 2
Day 172: Probably We humans get things so fouled up when we lose sight of God's words, and replace them with our own. Sometime after the feeding of the 5,000 came the lesser remembered miraculous feeding of another 4,000. In between these two episodes (Matthew 15) Jesus found Himself in dialogues with religious authorities. This […]
September 1
Day 171: Easy Believism Reading John 6 this morning, I see again how confusing the Lord's words must have been to His initial listeners. And Jesus was always purposeful in what He did and said, so this didn't happen by accident. Jesus starts off by telling them He is the "Bread of Life." He also […]