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Why You Should Listen to Pilgrim’s Progress
In response to our strangely interrupted world, my Bible study group began meeting on Zoom. Since not everyone joined on Zoom, we decided...
A Garden Discovery
I know the Bible gets deeper and wider the more we read it. Many truths are like gold that we have to dig and search for, as Solomon...
Pleasant lines?
“The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.” Psalm 16:6 This verse struck me with special force yesterday in my daily reading of the...
A Selah Moment
We thought it might be a few weeks, now it seems like it may be a few months, or even longer. The world has slowed down, stopped. Highway...
Purge Me with Hyssop
"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." Psalm 51:7 As the M’Cheyne Bible reading plan has...
Thoughts on Moses and COVID-19
The Power of Intercession and a God who Relents Today, as part of the M'Cheyne reading plan, I read Exodus 32, which describes God’s wrath...
Thoughts on Habakkuk
Make the Vision Plain, the name of my website, comes from a verse in Habakkuk: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run...
2019 Best Books I’ve Read
This year, my reading was affected by two knee replacements and the accompanying medication that made it hard to concentrate. But I still...
A Month’s Adventures for National Book Lover’s Day
Exactly one month ago on July 9, I had a second knee replacement surgery. In the following days, I haven't been far from my house...
A Month of Healing in Narnia
On March 1, I had knee replacement surgery and began the process of recovery. For most of the month of March, I slept only a few hours at...
Wise words on Prayer
Lilias Trotter served her Lord in Algeria from 1888 to her death in 1926. Lilias, born to a wealthy family in England, first applied to a...
2018 Best Books I’ve read
This has been an interesting year for me in reading, with books ranging from spiritual themes to cultural contrasts to biographies, with a...