Author: Pam

A friend is praying for her sister who has fallen on deadly habits. She can’t stop. I crave chocolate every afternoon near 2-ish. I guess you could call it addiction. The verse she is praying for her loved one is Jer 32:27, “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh (mankind); is anything…

I meant to read Psalms but I flipped too far and read Proverbs 8. It is a long chapter. I returned to Psalm 8 – not as long. What was interesting in the Proverbs passage, discussing wisdom, is the pronouns. Wisdom is personified as she. In a lifetime of feminist teachings I chuckled and thought…

I’m not sure who said this but I think it was a friend recovering from a stroke. It is impossible to avoid everything but in a healing season one must pare down. I compare this process to a final move. My neighbor’s garage is filled with her mother’s precious things. She had been in a…

I love the truth that God is sovereign. Reign is a part of that word when dissected. I also know there are people who blame God for this broken world. “If He is sovereign, then why the big mess?” What happens between God’s will and our will? There is a tension between cause and effect….

In my neighborhood many drive Tesla’s. I’m a fan of Elon Musk but he is a character and I’m not sure what side of history or eternity he will land. He has made billions by founding or investing in a variety of forward-thinking tech companies. He loves space and is fixated on one particular letter…

Compare the Old Testament promises to us with the New Testament. The old leads to a new and inclusive salvation. Israel was set apart then confronted with Jesus. It did not go well. When I think of the state of the world today and the persecution of the Jews, I feel as if we are…

There is an impressive account in the book or Joshua, chapter six, on the walled city of Jericho. I cannot remember any account in God’s word where any wall is referred to as evil. Some walls secured cities where the worshipers of idols resided. Felling the wall employed priests and musicians, but however it happened,…

We are supposed to show care and spread joy. I thought I was doing that today but it ended feeling like a sucker punch. My fault was in not following directions. Jesus is clear in these points – that are not parables. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with…

Guilt would hold us all back but we have been made a most welcome people into the presence of our holy God. To rehearse the transaction, God has always been, then the creation, the fall, the Children of Abraham, Jesus Christ, the Spirit and Church, our time, then Jesus returns and the new creation. We…

With every film rendition of what the original Passover scene looked like, I look away. It is usually a dark misty thing and then you hear the crying and then, recently, I saw a film that had ghosts walking around Egypt. If it’s not in the Bible don’t put it in your film! That one…