Category: Life Notes

Life Notes—June 30, 2011 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.  For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  Galatians 5:13-14  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was … Continue reading Freedom For A Purpose

Life Notes—June 23, 2011 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?  Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory … Continue reading How Majestic

Life Notes—June 16, 2011 Sometimes at night, I’d lie awake, longing inside for my father’s embrace; And sometimes at night I’d wander downstairs, pray he’d returned, but no one was there. Oh, how I’d cry, a child all alone, waiting for him to come home… Excerpts from My Father’s Chair by David Meece  This Sunday … Continue reading Who’s Your Daddy?

Life Notes—June 9, 2011 “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.  And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.  Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested … Continue reading One in the Spirit

Life Notes—June 2, 2011 “When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.”  Acts 1:9  Jesus has been betrayed, crucified, buried and resurrected.  He returned to his disciples in some sort of body/spirit mix for a number of days prior to his … Continue reading Stairway to Heaven

Life Notes—May 26, 2011 “I have said these things to you while I am still with you.  But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.”  John 14:25-26  Few things are more difficult for me … Continue reading (Holy) Ghost Busters

Life Notes—May 19, 2011 “Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going.  How can we know the way?’  Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you know me, you will know my Father also.  … Continue reading Non-Answer Answers

Life Notes—May 12, 2011 “For it is a credit to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly.  If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that?  But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God’s approval.”  1 Peter 2:19-20  … Continue reading Suffering for Good

Life Notes—May 5, 2011 “I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.  Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.  The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.  Then … Continue reading Save My Life!

Life Notes—April 28, 2011 “(But Thomas) said to them, ‘Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”  John 20:25b  My daughter, Grace, was suspicious of Santa Claus almost from the beginning.  The … Continue reading Wrestling With Doubt