How do we fight the good fight to be holy?  How do we train ourselves to be godly?  Do we just strap on our boots and pull ourselves up and do it?  We've all found that it is impossible to do in our o...  Read More

On Friday I quoted Thad Cardine’s statement from Substack, “You can’t form a godly soul with a godless habit loop.”  That line has been rumbling through my mind and especially as I’ve tried to learn t...  Read More

“You can’t form a godly soul with a godless habit loop.”  This statement from Thad Cardine, Substack, floored me.  It is so simple and yet it is as profound a statement as you’ll ever read.  Spiritual...  Read More

Years ago, I was in Austria on a family vacation.  We visited the castle there and it was amazing, but the thing I remember most was a simple church off the beaten path.  I had been in several cathedr...  Read More

A few days ago, my daily Bible reading plan had me read Ezekiel 4.  In that chapter the prophet is asked to act out the siege of Jerusalem. God tells his prophet to lay on his left side for 390 days, ...  Read More

We are not a patient people, or should I say, I am not a patient person.  I was in line at a fast-food restaurant the other day and it took longer than I thought it should!  I found myself aggravated ...  Read More

I am often on a quest for solitude.  Living in a home with my beautiful wife, two of my four daughters, two cats, and three dogs…it is often a futile search…that is unless I get up early.Almost every ...  Read More

I love the creativity of God.  G.K. Chesterton in his book, Orthodoxy, talked about the vitality of children, “They always say, ‘Do it again,’ and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly ...  Read More

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, my favorite line of all poems, “Earth’s crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God, but only he who sees, takes off his shoes.  The rest sit around and ...  Read More

There is a line in Mary Oliver’s “The Wren from Carolina,” that speaks of the, “wren in the hedge, above me, with his blazing song.”I don’t get to sit outside every morning, but every morning that I d...  Read More

I read someone not long ago referring to the Artic Tern…it’s a bird famous for its migration…flying some 12,000 miles from its Artic breeding grounds to the Antarctic and back again each year.  By the...  Read More

I’ve had more spiritual conversations with believers than I can count, but one thing seems to be a common denominator in all of our lives…I just haven’t met anyone who says, “I’m really happy with my ...  Read More