Drive-By Conviction

Fire Trucks at Cook’s Corner. October, 2007. In Good Faith“Always assume good faith,” my friend Bruce counseled. My graduate-school colleague seldom offered advice, so when he did, I listened. I had naively stepped in a seething campus controversy. Now that I was stranded in quicksand, I kept glimpsing hostile motives sliding around corners just beyond […]


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Weekend Reflection: Unspoken

Glory. 1-2 God’s glory is on tour in the skies,    God-craft on exhibit across the horizon.Madame Day holds classes every morning,    Professor Night lectures each evening.3-4 Their words aren’t heard,    their voices aren’t recorded,But their silence fills the earth:    unspoken truth is spoken everywhere.Psalm 19:1-4 (MSG) Take off your shoes. Linger […]


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My Business is His Business

Don’t Get Too ComfortableDavid Platt writes strong words about the state of Christianity in our society today. Over half of “Christians” don’t believe that the Holy Spirit or Satan is real, and tens of millions of them don’t believe that Jesus is the divine Son of God. Finally, almost half of “Christians” don’t believe the […]


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Weekend Reflection: Hot

Flames on Our Hillside. October, 2007. But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob,And He who formed you, O Israel,“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;I have called you by name; you are Mine!2 “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;And through the rivers, they will not overflow […]


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spirit body drugs

This physical experience we spiritual beings are having is like a drug: It can be used for life-saving, even heroic purposes, or it can be abused in the pursuit of pleasure. — Best regards, Sheila sheilalagrand.com


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