Personal Musing: When good friends move away

People in our life come and go, everything has a time and a season. Sometimes there are times of parting as people go on to their next phase in life. In the past I have had good college friends move on in their life and we still connect or touch base every once and awhile [...]

Helpful Article: Tim Challies on Inerrancy of Scripture

Recently on Facebook had a minor discussion on the inerrancy of Scripture.  While contemplating putting together a more thoughtful musing on the subject I ran across a reprint of a Tim Challies article on the inerrancy of scripture.  Hope you read it and find it helpful.  ______________________________ The Inerrancy of Scripture by Tim Challies The Inerrancy of Scripture  http://www.challies.com/articles/the-inerrancy-of-scripture-part-1 http://www.challies.com/articles/the-inerrancy-of-scripture-part-2 [...]

Prayer Request Update: Janie Blake

Well, a couple weeks ago shared the difficult news of Janie Blake retaking up a battle with Cancer. Just wanted to give update of where things are at. After the initial report of the return of cancer cells Janie was giving difficult prognosis. She was informed that she was likely to have “months” to live [...]

Do you test your own understanding?

This to me is an important question to consider: Do you test your own understanding?  As a Christian and follower of Jesus I believe it is important to constantly examine what I think I understand about God and the Bible.  Now this questioning of ones own understanding is not about the essential matters of doctrine and faith, [...]

Musing on Endless Litnanies of Rationalizations for Lack of Intentionality

Sitting here thinking tonight and where I am in various goals and changes in my life.  Started off the year with goal to be more intentional with writing articles for the blog.  Also started being more intentional with spending time in God’s word.  Now with that being said, late last summer and into the fall had [...]

Post State of the Union Musings

Tonight the President of the United States gave his State of the Union address. This yearly speech is the one that the President set the legislative goals for the year ahead or uses to set or declare the vision, direction, and agenda for the country in the year  ahead.  Now, the things the President spoke [...]

Video Selections: You Gotta Tell Somebody- Don Franscico

This is a video  of  Don Fransico signing his song written from Jairus’s perspective related to looking to have Jesus heal his daughter, instead he raised her from death.  In viewing and listening to the song lots of think about.  Do we limit God?  Does we only praise God when victory is acheived?   How deep [...]

Be Thou My Vision: Musings with Lyrics and Video

The Christian poem and Hymn known as by though my vision has been on my mind and heart recently.  Now perhaps it is connected to my mother’s vision loss issues but there is more to it.   If we are truly surrendered to seeing with God’s vision, eyes can be opened to things people are blind.   When [...]

Question of week 10-1-2009: How big is your view of God?

This question comes as a result from reading the first chapter of Francis Chan’s book Crazy love.   Do we really appreciate the full extent of the bigness of God? The answer should be no.  We all to often accept a limited view of how great God is, one that our mind can wrap around.  God [...]

Question of week 9-23-2009: Where do you find your identity?

In this day and age we are all about who am I and what do I want. We have books about finding purpose, finding self.  There is a lot of money made on developing self, identifying self, and observing self.  The world we live is really obsessed with self.  So my question is, where really [...]