Musings

Under Your Own Vine and Fig Tree

In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and peoples will stream…

Is Anything Worth More Than Your Soul?

Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross,…

Hidden Faults

How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults. Keep your servant from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me. Then I…

I Know the Pilot

Today’s Musing is from Donna Perkins And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God. —John 17:3a ESV Flying is so not my thing! It…

Crowd Control

Today’s Musing is from Marlene McKenna. At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. —Luke 4:42a NIV After spending a December weekend in New York City, I have a…

A Letter to My Grandchildren

O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works. Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not…

Doing All of Life With God

Pray without ceasing. —1 Thessalonians 5:17 NKJV It was a brisk spring day in downtown Annapolis, Maryland. A friend and I were strolling by shops looking for a place to…

Believing—Even in the Dark

But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said…

False Accusations

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right to accuse him. —Zechariah 3:1 NASB Accuse: to charge…

Simply Saved

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. —Romans 10:9 NIV Take just…

Encounter With the Cross

A passerby named Simon, who was from Cyrene, was coming in from the countryside just then, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus’ cross. (Simon was the father of…

Be Free!

They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you. —2 Peter 2:19 NLT The very word slave is…