Tag: identity
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For whoever needs to know this. You are loved.
Can I tell you a love story so marvelous to tell and too lasting to understand? A love that can only be accepted. It’s a story about love, rejection, correction and election. A story of choice with bitter ends and beautiful beginnings. A story of a love so deep, so wide, so far, so…
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God Don’t Make No Junk!
You are fearfully and marvelously made. How can I tell you that? Well, the Bible tells us that in Psalms. We’re also told that God has uniquely made each of us and knows us by name. The unique comment being proven by science through the recognition of DNA, that is unique to each of us. …
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Another Day
I’ve always been an early riser. And that does not mean that I don’t sleep in. I often get up between 3:30 am and 4:00 am and read. Pray. Drink coffee. Ponder. Write. Years ago I read a life impacting statement addressed to people like me who ‘are not good sleepers.’ What does that mean? …
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What is Your Name?
“Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.” Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.” Genesis 41:44-45 NIV There are few…
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White or Green Grandma?
“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—“ John 1:12 NIV “Are we going to green grandma’s or white grandma’s house first?” My wife, Megan and I were married in Jamaica in June 2006, only to find out that the…
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Isolated but Not Alone
“Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.” John 6:15 ESV “Do you have any friends?” I remember those haunting words from a mentor of mine when I was transitioning from leading one company to starting another. His…