Walking with a Bat
Every morning on my drive to work, I pass a man walking down the side of the road with a baseball bat. I don’t know his story. Maybe he’s perfectly harmless. But I’ll be honest — every time I see him, something in me tightens up. I’ve already decided to keep my distance before he’s…
Has the Church Settled for Fake Fireplaces?
My family has a little tradition in the winter. We pull up a fireplace channel on the Roku, turn the lights down low, and let it run for hours — flickering flames, the soft crackle of a fire that isn’t actually there. It’s convenient. No wood to split, no ash to clean, no risk of…
The Unplugged Controller
My sister used to beg to play video games with me, so I’d hand her a second controller — unplugged. She’d mash every button, lean side to side like she was dodging something, cheer when “her” character won. Meanwhile I was running both characters through my own controller, the real one, doing the actual work…
Guilty as Charged
There’s a word people like to throw around when they think your view of grace has gotten out of hand: hyper. Hyper-grace. Said like an accusation. Said like a warning. I’ve heard it and I’ve been on the receiving end of the accusation. So I looked the word up. Hyper — beyond, above, exceeding, excessive.…
A Duck and a Fence
Every believer knows the feeling of being outside the fence. Somewhere along the way, distraction, busyness, or plain drift carries us away from the place where peace lives, and we spend all our strength trying to claw our way back in. This devotional is about what happens next — and about who actually opens the…
Enriching Grave
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” ~ Romans 5:12 I type “Enriching Grace” into my phone more times than I’d like to admit. And more times than I’d like to admit, my phone doesn’t believe…
Optimistic Realism
“But this I say, brethren, the time is short… And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not… for the fashion of this world passeth away.” — 1 Corinthians 7:29, 30, 31 We have all experienced that moment in conversation. You cheerfully wave goodbye and say,…
Left Out While Trying to Include
“Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.” ~ 1 Corinthians 10:24 It was the end of practice. Every day, at the end of the Cross Country practices I coach, I give one of my runners the honor of breaking the team down — calling out the chant that closes out the…
Not Just Love
“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.” ~ Philippians 1:9-10 You have heard it. Likely more than once. Probably from a pulpit.…
Up There
“Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.” ~ Job 39:27-29 Look up on a clear afternoon and you may…
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