Illness

promise of healing With COVID still around, whatever the version, we find ourselves thinking about illness and disease. Lives lost, a considerable impact on all levels of the economy, and personal frustration for every age group are facts of the day. Actually,...

That Bush

how to start I’ve been asked how I start a piece of writing. The question followed one of my Edgefield Advertiser posts, so the context was biblical musings. But since getting started is a topic that fits any piece of writing, I’ll offer my thoughts on the...

“Lead Us Not into Temptation”

guidance When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we conclude with two petitions that deal with safety. After making a plea for forgiveness (based on our decision to forgive those who sin against us), we are to request that our Father lead us not into temptation. Seems simple...

Back to the Lord’s Prayer

forgiveness The prayer Jesus Christ gave his disciples when they said, “Teach us to pray” begins with an acknowledgment of the God being petitioned, the God Jesus taught all disciples, then and now, to address as “our Father.” The first request seems to be something...

Freedom

worth celebrating Freedom is worth celebrating–even beyond the 4th of July. It is central to Passover feasts. It’s what kids think about on the last day of school. Freedom is vacations, the day we burn the mortgage or pay off that student loan, the day the cast...