I’ve been in a sewing mood the last few weeks, so Sally Lloyd-Jones’ blog on her quilting workshop experience peaked my interest.  At this workshop the participants were asked to randomly choose quilting scraps (even the ones they didn’t particularly like) and sew them together in…

I grew up in a rural Southern Baptist church where, at the end of the service, you were invited to “come forward” and “be saved.”  As a child, I did not think it strange to speak of someone in our church or community as ‘saved’…

What’s the good news? This was the question my endocrinologist asked me this week as he walked into the examination room where I was waiting, not for him, but for his assistant. So, taken off guard both by his entrance and by his question, my…

My former pastor, Carey Olson, in conclusion to a week focused on missions, preached a sermon titled, The Gospel of the Kingdom, from Matthew 24:1-14. In v.3 of this passage, the disciples asked, …  what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of…

Okay; so I have grandkids. Just bear with me. My almost two-year old granddaughter is an early riser, and she loves to swing. So, on occasions when she spends the night with us it’s pretty much a sure thing that someone in the house will…

Along with most people I know, I generally avoid Leviticus. But after meditating on verse 27 of Luke 24, “Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures, …” (NASB) and other similar…

Psalm 87, written by the sons of Korah, speaks lovely things about Zion, the city of God. In a prophetic sense it speaks of salvation and the beautiful eternal city loved and established by God that welcomes citizens whose birth is recorded there. The Psalm…