A Word of Grace – October 30, 2017

Dear Friends, Fear is an extremely unpleasant emotion. It anticipates pain, danger, or a threat beyond human control. I once asked my office manager, a wise woman, why the administrators and employees of one of our Christian clients were so tentative in making decisions and passive-aggressive in expressing their opinions. “They’re afraid,” she answered. “Afraid

A Word of Grace – October 23, 2017

Dear Friends, The news of the past week was dominated by charges and counter-charges regarding President Trump’s alleged insensitivity in the manner in which he offered condolences to a grieving young widow of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. In the mix were the pregnant African-American widow and mother of two small children, her mother-in-law, an

A Word of Grace – October 16, 2017

Dear Friends, Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord. They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an

A Word of Grace – October 10, 2017

Dear Friends, Last week, I was traveling on a combined vacation and business trip so there was no message. . . . David writes— . Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death. (Ps.