But I’m unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments. Exodus 20:6 MSG “I will make what they meant for your harm into good if you…

Teach me your decrees, O Lord;     I will keep them to the end. Give me understanding and I will obey your instructions;     I will put them into practice with all my…

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain…

“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.…

But Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them.  But…

New Series Note: For tips on how to read scroll to the bottom:    We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they…

It was Dark Saturday, a perfectly fitting description for the status of my soul as I headed out on my mountain bike that lovely spring morning. As the COVID-19 pandemic…

Tears swam in my little man’s eyes when I asked him what was wrong. I went in to read him a bedtime story, unaware he was upset, but the disappointment…

Legs dangling a few feet over the bubbling creek, I sat on the bridge at the end of one of my favorite mountain bike trails, letting the Truth God was…

Embarrassingly, there is this false gospel I still submit to from time to time. It’s the belief that thinks because I am a Christian, trying to follow Jesus well, that…