Research indicates babies show a clear preference for articles of clothing worn by their mothers, and within a few hours after birth, mothers can distinguish their child by its smell.

God values the freedom of your response far too much to diminish your volition with His power.

I was visiting with a friend yesterday who said, “Humans are hardly predictable or dependable.” My friend is correct.

Never has a rider ridden more straight and true. Dad’s coaching crescendo culminated with a scream, “Don’t look at the pole.”

Everything you perceive had to have an origin. Its presence is dependent upon something greater than itself, holding it together, and retaining its consistency.

Given your freedom in Christ, you may live free in the power of the Spirit, walk with God each moment of every day, trust Him for each day’s concerns, and dedicate yourself to knowing God more fully. Or, you may not.

God initiated instead—loved me when unlovable, resistant to His overtures, suspicious of His every intent—and demonstrated His love.

God is inviting Isaiah to argue a moot point. That’s dumb. Irrational.

Knowing God is not about explaining His paradoxes. To know Him is to understand that He is paradoxical.

Kevin demonstrated John to me. John demonstrated how to grasp the heart and heartbeat of Jesus.

Maintain the two tracks in parallel, God sovereign and on His throne, man free to choose how he will live his life, and you have the potential for God and man in relationship.

Hardship is relative. What’s important is whether or not your soul seizes the godliness offered during the demand on your soul’s health.

It is no mistake that you live, and move, and have your being at this particular time in history.

A rather violent storm was moving into our area, and as it arrived, it matched the hurricane in my head and heart. I remained on the patio as Dianne sheltered in our interior bath and the tornado sirens sounded.

To know Jesus is to know grace and truth. To encounter grace and truth is to encounter Jesus—and since Jesus is God incarnate, to know Jesus or encounter grace and truth is to know and engage with God.

Here’s to my friend Linda, now departed, and the wonderful family she leaves behind, a family that has made me as much a member as if I were born into it.

While you are going to work, making nutritious meals for the family, nurturing your friendships, and managing your stressed budget, entire armies of people are dedicated to foisting upon you the pettiness listed above.

I don’t care what political stripe you have down your back, this heavy-handed behavior should absolutely horrify you!

Why this is occurring is, to quote our web guy, “Confusing.”

Now, you can hang your head in defeat or you can recognize that throughout Scripture there are two themes running along the scarlet thread of Jesus Christ’s Incarnation (Christmas) into human life