Lately, some of our founding fathers are being written off because of their failings. What do you think?
I’ve been thinking . . .
How many protesters are living up to the high ideals they’ve set for those who went before them?
John 8:7 (NLT)
Let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!
Veterans need safe shelter. Think about it . . .
While the rest of us watch HGTV from our comfortable couches, military personnel serve in some very unsafe places. When their tour of duty is done, they come home. To what?
Some come home with special needs, physical and emotional. Some can’t find space they can afford. Habitat for Humanity’s Veterans Build program focuses on safe, decent, affordable housing. What a worthy cause.
Lord God, we pray for our vets who need safe shelter–physical and emotional. Meet that need for a comfortable home–a place without fear, a place filled with hope. Amen.
“From war’s alarms, from deadly pestilence,
be Thy strong arm our ever sure defense.”
Daniel C. Roberts
God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand, 1876
(written for a Vermont Centennial celebration)
Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
God’s protective hand stands between his nation and disaster.
What happens to that protective hand when the people decided that they don’t want him to be their God?
Over the weekend, my Facebook news feed was filled with prayers. So what do you think? Did the prayers deflate Irma’s power?
James 5:16 (NLT)
The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.
Floods, wind, fire. Is God judging America? What do you think?
I don’t know what God is thinking.
All those things could be true. After all, God says:
Isaiah 55:9
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
As I drove to work, I listened to the top-of-the-hour news: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Jose, wildfires in the west, the earthquake . . . and the North Korean nuclear threat. “Disasters of Biblical proportions, ” the radio voice announced.
Disasters of biblical proportion call for a response of biblical proportion.
Isaiah 6:5,8 (NIV)
“Woe to me!” I cried.“
. . . Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
All Christians, everywhere, saying,
Send me.
Send me to serve in a shelter. Send me to build new shelters. Send me to give my resources for shelter. Send me to my knees to pray for their shelter.
A response of biblical proportion.
You might retire from your job.
Never retire from Bible study.
Psalm 1:2-3 (ERV)
They love the Lord’s teachings
and think about them day and night.
So they grow strong,
like a tree planted by a stream—
a tree that produces fruit when it should
and has leaves that never fall.
It doesn’t have to be the whole Bible.
It doesn’t have to be a whole book.
It doesn’t have to be a whole chapter.
It can simply be one verse.
