Tag Archives: Needs

When I was a new Christian at the age of 20 years old and had begun reading the Bible for the first time ever, I ran across this verse: “The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to ...

The forecast for today:  102 degrees.  A transplant to the south, the heat is something I have to prepare myself for.  The forecast helps me; I know what to expect and plan accordingly.  Not every expectation works out quite so well.  Plans go awry, wishes aren’t always fulfilled, and more ...

Mom passed away on Monday, June 1.  If you had talked to her before the Alzheimer’s got rooted in her brain, she would have told you that she wasn’t anything special.  She graduated from high school, raised her kids, went to church and worked in a grocery store.  She wasn’t ...

I don’t think there is anything more unappealing to me than ungratefulness.  There’s an image that has been floating around Facebook for some time–it’s a skeleton of a child, much too malnourished to live long, his mother giving him a drop, a single drop, of water.  None of us have it that bad. More gumption ...

God is speaking all the time, whether we know it or not, whether we hear it or not, whether we take note or listen and obey or not.  Recognizing that still, small voice is easy once you know it. “The Lord said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of ...