Category: Life Notes

Life Notes—February 11, 2010  “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, … Continue reading A Vast and Steamy Love Story

Life Notes—February 3, 2010  “…When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, ‘Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.’  Simon answered, ‘Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing.’”   Luke 5:3b-5a  Jesus was using Simon’s boat as a platform from which to preach to … Continue reading Net-Breaking Success

Life Notes—January 28, 2010  “…and you will say, ‘Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.  And he said, ‘Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown.’”   Luke 4:23b-24  When I was in high school and college I played in rock bands.  Although … Continue reading A Matter of Proximity

Life Notes—January 21, 2010  “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ…If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.   1 Corinthians 12: 12, 26  … Continue reading Members in the Body

Life Notes—January 14, 2010  “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.  Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples...”   John 13: 34-35   Jesus uttered these words as his Last Supper with his disciples was coming to a … Continue reading Loving and Liking

Life Notes—January 7, 2010  “…He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.  His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”   Luke 3:16b-17  Following one of my recent forays into the cold, white … Continue reading Baptism by Fire

Life Notes—December 31, 2009  “You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness”   Ephesians … Continue reading Between the Ears

Life Notes—December 23, 2009  “While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.  And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.”  Luke 2:6-7   I am told one of … Continue reading A Room With A Phew

Life Notes—December 17, 2009  “…My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant…”  Luke 1:46b-48a    These words are the beginning of a passage called, The Magnificat, found in Luke 1:46-55.  It is Mary’s song of praise as she reflects … Continue reading Humble Appreciation

Life Notes—December 10, 2009  “In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.  Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.”  Luke 2:8-9  One of the counterintuitive directives of the Bible is to … Continue reading Terrifying Encounters