I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. (Malachi 3:6 NIV) Around this time every year, I begin to see New Year memes popping up in my social media feeds. You know the ones. They typically say something like “New Year, New Me.” They talk about cutting weight or cutting crummy…
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (NIV) The title Mighty God in this beloved Advent verse reminds me of the first VeggieTales video our family ever owned. If you…
I love a good crime drama. Call me hooked on NCIS (all of them), Elementary, Murder She Wrote reruns, and any other show that has the whodunnit element. In TV Land, the case is closed when the good guys get the bad guys because these shows stop short of what happens next: trial by jury….
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather…
You may have seen the film The Greatest Showman. With its phenomenal music, raucous dancing, and Hugh Jackman, what’s not to like, right? (Okay, perhaps the fact that it’s not at all true to P. T. Barnum’s life can give us pause. But as a stand-alone, mostly fictional film, it’s pretty rad.) At one point…
Our heavenly Father has too many amazing traits to list them all, but let me give you a few examples: faithful, holy, just, loving, trustworthy, sovereign, majestic. One thing God rarely is, though? Fast. He seldom moves quickly, and therefore he often gives us opportunities to develop the fruit of patience. I particularly like an…