Thank You God For Discipline

This morning during the school’s morning message time we prayed for our Principal (as tomorrow is National Principal Day).  My daughter Abbie (6) has received more demerits and been to see our principal more time than just about every other student.  Our disciplinary procedures at the school are geared toward helping a student see why …

House Prayer

A house.  The first house.  The original house we wanted in Holdrege.  It has just come back on the market. We put an offer on it.  This one is within our price range.  We’re offering full asking price, asking in return that the seller pay closing costs. Please ask our Father on our behalf if …

Psalm 42:5-6

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Slip Out the Back Jack

I’ve not been posting here as most of my notes and posts have gone to Facebook.  But recently I have become completely and thoroughly disenchanted with FB.  Not to say I won’t use it again someday, but for now, my use of said so-called social networking site is going to be fairly minimal. I am …

Certain Uncertainty

From today's Utmost for His Highest: THE GRACIOUSNESS OF UNCERTAINTY "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." 1 John 3:2 Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. We imagine that we have to reach some end, but that is not the …

No Business Like Snow Business

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, In the lane, snow is glistening A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight. Walking in a winter wonderland. It's snowing this day, April Twenty-Eighth, in the year of our lord Two Thousand and Ten.

True Peace and Freedom

Though my country has the highest literacy rate in the world, education has not brought salvation. Peace and freedom -- both national and personal -- come only through an encounter with Jesus Christ. -- Mitsuo Fuchida, Leader of the Attack on Pearl Harbor This warrior has a great story.

Don’t Fall Down

Legend has it that, dining with Spanish nobles, Columbus was informed that even had he not discovered the New World, another (particularly a Spaniard would have).  Columbus replied by challenging the the assembled nobles would not be able to stand a hard boiled egg on its end without him doing it first.  One by one …

Blessing and Trial

A point in today’s Bible lesson is that Testing consistently follows blessing.  Too often we accept the blessing and fail to prepare for the testing.  We are thus frequently blindsided by the apparent suddenness of trials which follow periods of blessing.  This has given me much food for thought as lately God has been blessing …

Theology in the Classics

Swiss Family Robinson was one of my favorite boyhood films.  I recently began reading the book and was struck immediately by it’s piety, spiritual understanding and depth.   On the first page, the narrator edifies his children with the following affirmation: "Dear children," said I, "if the Lord will, He can save us even from …