Alone With God

Alone With God

Alone With God A few years ago, I spent four days backpacking in the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area of West Virginia. I needed time alone with God. The next week my wife Paula spent five days in the guest house of a Trappist Monastery. She needed the same thing. Time...
Cultivating Faithfulness

Cultivating Faithfulness

Cultivating Faithfulness Trust in the Lord and do good; Live in the land and cultivate faithfulness.(Psalms 37:3 NASB) Christians love mountaintop experiences, but faithfulness grows in the valley. In the early 1970s, I came to faith in Christ. Speakers came through...
What is God’s purpose for believers?

What is God’s purpose for believers?

What is God’s purpose for believers, to live by faith through all circumstances of life? John 6:35: “Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” Ephesians 3:16: “That He would grant you,...
Cultivating Faithfulness

Breathe!

Breath! Psalm 33:6-9:“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,And by the breath of His mouth all their host.He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;He lays up the deeps in storehouses.Let all the earth fear the Lord;Let all the inhabitants of the...