Choose Life. We know those words. They’ve been the banner cry of the pro-life movement for years and years. But did you know that those two words did not come from our modern thinking? In fact, to be “pro-life” has ancient roots. God has always given humanity a choice between life and death. Go back […]
Author's Musings
Why does the Bible make a big deal about salt?
Have you ever thought about salt? Other than to shake it onto your food or if you live in Michigan your roads in winter, you might not consider how many different ways salt is mentioned in the Bible. In my reading of the Gospel of Mark the other night, I ran across this passage: “For […]
No other gods
I’m reading a book called The Return of the Gods by Jonathan Cahn and finding it fascinating. If you’ve ever wondered what is behind ancient Israel’s idolatry and America’s fall away from the Judeo-Christian worldview, I highly recommend this book. As I’ve been reading though, it occurred to me that it is no mistake or […]
This and that
I’m sitting in my living room watching Kody watch the birds outside. The windows are open (in April in Michigan) because it’s 78 degrees in the house. Unheard of. We put up a new shepherd’s hook (the wind broke the one from last year) and put fresh feed in the feeder, so the birds are […]
Free
Freedom. We value that word, don’t we? Everyone who has it wants to keep it, and those who don’t, long for it. But did you know that you can live in a free country and be free to do whatever you please and still be enslaved? The Bible tells us that “people are slaves to […]