Salt Life . . . Lost
In Monday’s blog post, we talked about salt. Specifically how Jesus used salt as a metaphor for grace. If you missed the post, you can view it here. The following is part II of that…
Spiritual Growth
Devotional-style readings to help you grow and develop wisdom as a spouse, parent, friend, leader, and most importantly, as a Jesus-follower.
Salt Life
Ever notice how moms have to hide the candy and cookies but not the salt? They leave it right out on the counter. You never find a kid stuffing handfuls of salt in their mouths….
God at His Typewriter
Imagine God at His typewriter. He uses a typewriter because He loves it . . . there’s no delete key because He never makes a mistake. No white-out. No correction paper. When He writes our…
Newsflash: God Responds To Evil, Initiates Love
I read something profound the other day. God’s wrath is in response to evil. God’s inherent nature isn’t wrathful . . . He’s not performance-based . . . He didn’t set up a ‘pass-fail,’ ‘win-lose’…
Extra Time
When I grew up, we didn’t play soccer. I’m still not sure I understand penalty kicks, corner kicks or what ‘offside’ means. But most mystifying is how they keep time. With multimillion-dollar scoreboards and digital…
Are You Blessed . . . or Lucky?
Sometimes being a Jesus-follower takes us places we never thought. Years ago, I decided I’d avoid taking credit for the good stuff in my life. If I’m a fully surrendered Jesus-follower, then God’s bringing the…
A Thanksgiving Test . . .
One question: “Who or what are you most thankful for?” Take a second and think about it. Be honest with your answer. Now say it out loud! If you didn’t say “Jesus,” there’s a problem….
What Radical Wives Do
The poor guys in my mentoring groups get seriously beat around the head and neck with Ephesians 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.” Christ didn’t…
From a Crutch to the Cross
As men, we so often walk around leaning on a crutch, an outward sign of our broken inward condition, that it can become our identity if left unaddressed. In my early teens, I lost my…
People Don’t Buy Solutions to Problems They Don’t Have
Why can’t we get it through our thick heads that unchurched, non-Christian people aren’t ‘buying’ Christianity? They aren’t because they don’t think they have any problems . . . at least none our faith can…
