On Friday, I ran an old post. I was planning to be out of town the night before and I wanted to be ready. I don’t remember what I searched for as I looked at my archives, but I ended up with a post about sleep. Actually, it’s about Psalm 4, about sleep coming from […]

(A repost from May 23, 2009. I needed to remember this and thought you might, too.) Everyone I know is tired. It could be me making them tired, but I am sure that I am not the center of everyone’s universe, the cause of everyone’s fatigue. All of us need rest. All of us don’t […]

I’m spending the day with a vet.  He’s my dad. Spend some time today with a vet. I’m leaving you with some extra time to do that. And you can pray for mine, too.

Stone of help. That’s what Ebenezer means. It’s a Bible name. For a rock.  Samuel sets up a stone between Mizpah and Shen. He calls it Ebenezer. He says, “So far, God has helped us.” That’s the end of the story. It started with Israel being tired of what was happening in their spiritual lives. […]

On Sunday, we were talking about church. At church. In our discussion, I was going to ask, “How many of you have bad experiences with church.” My guess is that most of the 20 or so people in the room would have raised their hands. And then I was going to say, “Me too.” And […]