Love and Obey

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. – John 14:21

My regular readers have heard me talk about my rescued English setter mixes, Churchill and Pepper. Churchill, part border collie, is the brains of the (more…)

Remember Your Calling

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.—Colossians 4:17

If you’ve been reading the Bible for a while, you’ll be familiar with the phenomenon through which a verse you’ve read many times suddenly jumps out at you or takes on new significance. Call it a spiritual face palm. That was (more…)

Dyslexic Believers: Exalting Dog Above All Else

Then God said, “Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” – Genesis 1:26

Birds, fish, tadpoles, a hamster, a guinea pig, a (more…)

A Time for Self-Reflection

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. – Psalm 139:23

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. – 1 Corinthians 13:12

You’re hearing less from me this holiday season because I, like (more…)

Do the Hard Things

The King will answer and say to them, “Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.”—Matthew 25:40

True Christianity looks much different from the sanitized pop-culture religion we have fabricated. It is hands-on and messy, unpredictable, colorless and borderless. It is (more…)