PROTECTION PETITION
Psalm 141 expresses a petition for protection, the opening lines of the Psalm: “Lord, I call on you; hurry to help me.Listen to my voice […]
Journals
NEW WAY TO LIVE
After Jesus was tempted with the three all-encompassing tests in the Wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11), that are basically listed as “the lust of the flesh, the lust […]
HE CARES ABOUT US II
Sam Sifton, New York Times journalist wrote: “I grew up reading the Harper’s Index, a collection of statistics that has run in Harper’s Magazine since […]
HE CARES ABOUT US I
Some of the most obvious needs of an individual are respect, purpose and having someone care about us. Sometimes none, or only one or two, […]
COLLECTIBLE CARDS
Collectible Cards, or trading cards, come in various categories with sports cards being a large sector. But there are non-sports cards of various kinds that […]
ENJOYING AND THANKING
In yesterday’s Journal entry I wrote about Bold Enjoyment. The verse was: Ecclesiastes 9:7“So go ahead. Eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, […]
BOLD ENJOYMENT
After yesterday’s Journal entry on ‘die to self’ and making a willful choice to ‘die to self so we might live for Christ,’ it is […]
FREE CHOICE FOLLOWING
There is a steady stream of reminders in scripture that we “are to die to self” as a condition to be alive to Christ. One […]
TRASHY DAY
“Modesto, California — Around 4:02 a.m. on Monday (April 13, 2026), Modesto Fire crews responded to the area of 12th and I Street after a […]