What Now 2 Do

Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?

Cure Leukemia: Le Tour Meets Character

Ready for another good news story from the 2021 Tour de France? The Cure Leukemia peloton set out with two goals. Complete the entire Tour route of some 2,200 miles in 21 days - the same as the pro cyclists.  And raise £1-million ($1.4 million) for leukemia...

Today’s Choice

Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! Moses, ~1405 BC, Deuteronomy 30:19 NLT...

Fitting The Pieces Together

I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word. Psalm 119:15–16 ASV Are you a 350 piece jigsaw person? Or are you a serious jigsaw-puzzler and nothing less than 1,000 pieces will do? Putting together...

I Have Good News And Bad News

Moses on the good news and bad news of God's commandments: "The good news: I kept him down to ten. The bad news: adultery stays. No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, Ruth Wisse [Paraphrased]

The Alt Tour

I am able to all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 The Tour de France is a grueling competition.  23 days. 2,100 miles through the mountains to Paris. 150,000 feet of climbing.  Rain. Heat. Crashes. Le Tour is widely considered one of...

If At First

The Holy Spirit is determined that we will have the realization of Jesus Christ in every area of our lives, and He will bring us back to the same point over and over again until we do. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances simply happen at...

Shabbat Shalom

Then Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went as usual to the synagogue. Luke 4:16 GNT On this Sabbath, let's get some perspective. We view the Church as just one piece of the tapestry of our lives. It is not so. The Church (the...

Grace, Glory, And Righteousness

For the Lord God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right. Psalm 84:11 NLT

Gratitude, A Prayer

Always give thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:20 ICB Our prayer today: Father, I thank you this morning for the abundance in my life. My abundance list is so infinitely longer than the list of things I don't...

Let Your Light Shine

If all people knew of Jesus was what they see in your life, how much would they know? #identifiedwithChrist

What Time Is It?

Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. But how can people call on him if they have not believed in him? How can they believe in him if they have not heard his message? How can they hear if no one tells the Good News? Romans 10:13-14 NOG What time is it?...

The Paul Sherwen Project

On this, the 10th of 21 days of racing in Le Tour, here is another good-news story of professional cycling intersecting with a worthy cause. British by birth but raised in Kenya, Paul eventually made Uganda his permanent home.   He died unexpectedly of heart...

God Bless The United States of America

Shabbat Shalom. The Sabbath was established by our sovereign God. It's the day set aside to remember and worship God, the Creator. This year, Independence Day happens to fall on a Sabbath. The Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4th, 1776, established the...

With What Shall I Come Before The Lord?

And what does the Lord require of you but to do what is right to other people, to show constant love, and to walk in humble fellowship with God. Micah 6:8 b "With what shall I come before the Lord" is the question for all people of every age. Following on from...

What Does God Require Of Me?

With what shall I come before the Lord?  Isaac of Nineveh (Note 1) suggests an answer: "Do not reduce your prayers to words, but rather make the totality of your life a prayer to God." Make the entirety of your life a prayer of worship to God. What does that look...

Suit Up. This Is War

Fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish. Jude 1:3b MSG The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.   Uncertain Attribution Great faith is the product of great...