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Prayers I didn't write, borrowed because they said what I couldn't.

Dramatic storm clouds building against a blue sky.
December 20, 2021

All Things are Full of Weariness

A Context for the Experience of Weariness “The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. All streams run to the sea, but…

Black and white photo of a foggy tropical road lined with large ferns and palm fronds.
July 21, 2018

Just Some Recent Reflections

About 17 people perished yesterday when a small boat cap-sized in Branson, Missouri. Can you imagine what the families and friends of those people must be going through? We like to separate ourselves as far from death as possible. We tend to do this with all of life’s unpleasantries, but especially death. This isn’t a…

Black and white photo of a muddy, fallen-branch-strewn creek bed at the bottom of a wooded ravine.
July 14, 2018

My Psalm 63 ‘Mixtape”

Part of being rooted like the tree described in Jeremiah 17 is having truths to grip onto during both life’s tumult’s, and zeniths. I used to be so excited about putting together mixtapes/CD’s back in the 90s and early-2000s What did we do? We essentially compiled a track of our most treasured songs. Like, you…

Black and white photo of a muddy, fallen-branch-strewn creek bed at the bottom of a wooded ravine.
November 4, 2017

A Great Sinner Pardoned Makes a Great Singer

“A great sinner pardoned makes a great singer.” -C.H. Spurgeon I wish I could take credit for the title of my post, but they’re the words of C.H. Spurgeon, from his commentary on Psalm 51. I have made it clear that this blog and essentially, my life, orbits around Jeremiah 17. If I had to…

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.”

Jeremiah 17:7, ESV

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

2 Corinthians 13:14, ESV

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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