Category Archives: Window on our culture

Wash Your Hands

Isaiah 1:16 (MSG) Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings. Go home, wash your hands, wipe your doorknobs, sanitize your counters. Clean out those germs! Stop and think. Where have those … Continue reading

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Biblical Precautions

  Are you following pandemic precautions?     I wash my hands I cover my mouth I keep my distance I watch out for my elders When I was out and about last week–hands washed, mouth covered–some related Bible verses … Continue reading

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Faithless Complaints

  For Lent, I’m studying the book of Exodus. Funny how the complaints of the Israelites sound a lot like complaints I hear about the coronavirus.   “The leaders are clueless.” “How can we be expected to make do?” “We’re … Continue reading

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Foreseen Consequences

  Minds wiser than mine have canceled events, closed schools and restricted travel–all  in an effort to slow down a virus. Will it work?   Hope so! I have some doubts I fear it won’t Even if these actions succeed, … Continue reading

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Lost Time

  Early Sunday morning, an hour disappeared. Daylight Savings Time snatched it away. How do you feel about that?   Never missed it I want it back! We lost an hour. Where’d it go? Should we look for it? Can … Continue reading

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Modest Glow

  Matthew 5:16 (TLB) Let your good deeds glow for all to see, so that they will praise your heavenly Father.   Forget the glitz and the glam. It’s all about God’s glow.

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Modest Beauty

  “There is little virtue in the beauty which calls attention to itself; modest beauty is the last to extol its own charms.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)

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Modest Prayer

  John 3:30 (NIV) He must become greater; I must become less.   Lord Jesus, may the people I meet see less of me and more of You.

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Modest Thought

  Modest. Per Merriam-Webster, moderate, neither bold nor self-assertive, decent. Where does “modest” fit into our culture?   Good riddance! Lost in the crowd Where’s the drama in “modest”? All to often, our clothes our homes, our cars and our … Continue reading

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Just Stones

  “People living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”     This wise saying reminds us to be careful who we criticize. Jesus offered this piece of relevant advice: John 8:7 (CEV) If any of you have never sinned, then … Continue reading

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