“We should listen more often than we speak. Why else did God give us two ears, but only one mouth?” Well, he may have had other reasons, but I think we’d agree that holding our tongues and being careful to listen is a virtue. And one spoken of often in Scripture. Take, for instance, James 1:19: … More A Case of Two Ears & One Mouth
Riddle for the day: What one thing has all things coming to it, coming through it, and coming from it? And by “all things,” I mean all things. Think about it. First, you have this. Then this. Then this. Put them all together, and you have this. Or is it this? Okay, let me give … More The Impossibility of All Things
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who know their spiritual gift and those who don’t. “Hi, nice to meet you.” “Nice to meet you, too. What is your spiritual gift?” “I’m not really sure. I keep getting different results. What about you?” “I’m a prophet. And, wouldn’t you know, my husband’s a … More spiritual gifts {for dummies}
Never do I feel more like a fish swimming upstream than when I drive. It’s not that I’m driving against the flow of traffic {though that is not outside the realm of possibility for me . . . I have stories}. It’s that I’m driving the speed limit. And no one else is. Now, before you … More why I drive the speed limit
The headlines of the past weeks and months leave me greatly unsettled. Thanks to a world which expresses itself outright and leaves nothing hidden, it is not hard to tell where the government stands on any given issue and where every individual, Christian and non-Christian alike, stands in response. Up to this point, I have … More a response to government
Journey of the Word 