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It’s hard to believe, but we are now starting the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Much has changed in our world, and in the church, since early 2020 as a result of Covid. What follows are some of my personal reflections on two big issues related to Covid that continue to be questions inContinue reading “Covid Coverings and “Cookies”, and the Church”

Needless to say, 2020 was a challenging year. Yet, despite it all, we take comfort knowing that neither Covid-19, nor scientists, nor politicians and government leaders are in control of things. Rather, it is our sovereign Triune God who works all things according to the counsel of His will (Eph 1:10), and who works allContinue reading “New Year – Old (Eternal) Promises”

Today we celebrate—well, many do—the birth of our great country. Independence Day. This year more than others I feel compelled to say something about that.  I spent 21 years in the United States Air Force. I served with the greatest men and woman, Black, White, Brown and everything in between. There were so many places,Continue reading “Celebrating Simply Being American”

Is it true that “all that we are asked to bear we can bear?” (Another way that folks put this is to say that “God won’t put more on us than we can bear?) The person who sent me this quote about bearing all we can bear summed up its meaning when she said thatContinue reading “God Won’t Put More On Me Than I Can Bear?”

Someone forwarded me a quote from the novelist Elizabeth Goudge, where she said “All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.” While the quote sounds profound, it really conveys aContinue reading “The Spiritual Life and Bearing What We are Able”