Things That Never End

Things That Never End

O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us.     Your plans for us are too numerous to list.     You have no equal. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds,     I would never come to the end of them. Psalm 40:5 Some things in life seem like they’ll...
Alone

Alone

The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV Yesterday I took my 4-year-old daughter out skiing for the first time. As we practiced on the green run, I...
Variable Conditions

Variable Conditions

“For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.” (Malachi 3:6) (NIV) “Another day, another season” I thought as I sighed and “suited up” for my job as a ski racing coach at a resort in New Hampshire. I reached into my locker,...
War! What is it good for?

War! What is it good for?

Blessed be the Lord, my rock,    who trains my hands for war,    and my fingers for battle;he is my steadfast love and my fortress,    my stronghold and my deliverer,my shield and he in whom I take refuge,    who subdues peoples under me. O Lord, what is man that you...
Direction for Reflection

Direction for Reflection

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.  And he is...
Fast Tracks

Fast Tracks

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being...