Kindness: What’s In YOUR Wallet?

Thanks to a Facebook friend from Dallas, TX, for this thought.      Now there was a wealthy and influential man in Bethlehem named Boaz, who was a relative of Naomi’s [deceased] husband, Elimelech. One day Ruth the Moabite [and Naomi’s...

Looking Back at My 20s: What Have I Done?

I look back at myself  now that I am single, in my early 30s, without a permanent job and still stuck living with my parents. What went wrong?  As I looked back at all the things I had done in my 20s, it was nothing but studying and working.  I had two...

Depressed & Happy About It: Contentment in Trials

As I talked with a customer who came through my check-out lane, we got to talking about the “old days”, long before I was born, and how I would have liked to have been able to experience a bit of it in reality rather than through cinema portrayals. This...

The Hopeful Message of Sin, Part 2

The despicable behavior of King David in the whole ‘Bathsheba affair’ makes it extremely difficult for us to conclude anything but that he clearly was guilty of ‘intentional’ sin. What other verdict could we come to?! And it is true. God holds...