The Everlasting in Me
With my retirement from public work to working from home in my writer’s studio, still fresh after just 11 weeks versus 40 years, any wording with retirement catches my eye. Today it came from a Louis Armstrong quote...
The Dark Side of Solomon
There are times I succumb to, what I call, the dark side of Solomon. There, Solomon’s darkness replaces hope with pessimism and adverse history eclipses faith’s optimism. It is there, in that place, all becomes vanity. ...
Labor of Love – Its Tasks and Assurance
In my last post I shared the difference between works of faith and labor of love. Today, let’s look further at that labor as was written to the Hebrews: “For God is not unrighteous to forget your...
Work of Faith, Labor of Love—We’re Called to Both
I find it interesting that Paul used two different words—work and labor, when they seem so similar—as he defined the Thessalonian believers: “constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope...