Reading Time: 3 minutes Being excused removes culpability; offering an excuse isn’t the same thing. If my gale-force sneeze catches you directly between the eyes, you may excuse (forgive) me if I was totally caught off guard. I’m guilty as a cat caught with a parakeet feather between her teeth, but horrors – I’m far more embarrassed than you […]
Living the Gospel with Joy
Preaching with and without words. Encouragement. Bible study. Inspiration. Tips, strategies, tools, and affirmations for New Creations in Christ.
From Pressure to Perfect Peace – Horses and Christians
Reading Time: 4 minutes Horses learn from the release of pressure, when intrusions into their experiential space disappear by an action the horse controls. Imagine your horse responding to nothing but your thought, the ultimate result of the soft yield to a rein, leg, or rope. Perfect peace is equal parts habit and relationship. Faith builds when the results […]
Quit Comparing Yourself to Others – Focus on the Positive
Reading Time: 2 minutes How many of you have ever stood on a horse’s back? This picture caught my attention because I can’t do this. The problem isn’t my horses, they’d let me stand on them. I’m the roadblock. “It’s me, I’m the guilty person, the reason my horses aren’t in photos like this one.” It’s easy to compare […]
Do Animals Go to Heaven?
Reading Time: 9 minutes Is the Rainbow Bridge something real or a myth than makes losing a loved one easier to bear? The book I’ve always wanted to write (but couldn’t) would answer two very important questions: What happens to animals after they die? Will our most beloved pets be waiting for us on the other side? I’ve researched […]
Unexpected Stewardship Challenges
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stewardship topped my chart a few years ago when I realized how much stuff we had that we didn’t use. Since then, I actively seek to rehome anything that can better serve elsewhere. If I don’t love something or need it, it’s on it’s way out the door. Five days ago I realized that I’m […]
Socialism, Equality, and the Garden of Eden
Reading Time: 3 minutes The relative value of socialism and demands for equality or equity dominate politics, academia, and public debate. What few consider is that the conversation began in the Garden of Eden. Reducing God to human level denies His qualities of being other or more than we. Sinful human nature seeks to bring God down to our […]
Living With Christian Victory in a World that Denies God
Reading Time: 5 minutes The United States is a hot mess of disunity. If you’re not at war with someone over what they think, you’re not in the game. How do you learn what the game is, who sets the rules, or how to choose a winning strategy? How do you realize Christian victory in our post-Christian society? I’ve […]
Miraculous Relationship – Jesus and Horses
Reading Time: 3 minutes Animals see you. The real you. They read your spirit, your intentions, and know your heart. As a child I trusted animals and sought their company. Growing up, I took a stake in the heart on the few occasions an animal didn’t immediately fall in love with me. Critters were my safe place, my comfort […]
Christmas Tradition and Family Heirlooms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Usually you think of heirlooms as things, valued either intrinsically or as inspiration of generational family lore. One lady changed my concept of family heirlooms when I delivered Meals-on-Wheels as a Rotarian. Mrs. K, a lady with too-black hair, greeted me from a wheelchair, her footman a remarkably fat and contented gray cat. She stayed […]
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