Category: Faith

Thirty-Seven Days Learning Appreciation for Matthew 6.

I had been told many times, “live one day at a time,” by folks much wiser than myself. I had been able to associate this advice with our Savior’s words, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow…

A New Kind of Self-abasement

In the second chapter of Colossians, the Apostle Paul twice refers to those who had a “voluntary” (KJV) or a “false” (NKJV) humility. The NASV and ESV, respectively, translate it “self-abasement” and “asceticism.” He, most likely, was referring to the…

“Can You Hear Me?”

A cell phone company has popularized the above question in its advertizing videos. For the answer to be positive depends on both the transmission and reception of both phones. If either is faulty then the conversation becomes a monologue rather…

The Doctor’s Orders

I still go to the doctor who has been my primary physician for a good many years. He practices in the town where we lived prior to moving to our present address. There are many doctors closer to us that…

Seeing the invisible…

One may think that he is seeing the wind blowing – but strictly speaking this is impossible. He can only see the effects of the blowing wind. Wind itself, whether still or blowing, is invisible. Luke tells us, in Acts…