Monthly Archives: January 2016
I’ve always admired the way traditional Judaism celebrates the Sabbath starting on Friday night into the day of Saturday. If we’re looking for a time when we’re all ready to stop working – these are definitely the hours.
This past weekend, having a blizzard blow through my area all day Saturday…..
God has an on-going assignment list for each of us. This is apart from the generalized injunctions the Lord gives us about loving our neighbor as ourselves. Some of the to-do’s are probably even directed toward taking good care of ourselves: getting more rest or more exercise, eating better, maybe even taking more breaks!…..
Keeping in mind this new bigger set of clothes that God wants us to grow into with each passing year, let’s return to Genesis for the story of Jacob wrestling all night long with a stranger who turns out to be the Lord Himself (Genesis 32:22-32).
Remember that Jacob did not get “grandfathered” into…..
We end and begin our years with three “happy” holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. While it’s easy to connect Thanksgiving and Christmas to God, New Year’s often gets dismissed as a purely “human” thing. I beg to differ.
As we approach the New Year, we generally do two things:…..