As believers, we talk about Easter Sunday, and rightfully so. We celebrate Christ’s resurrection, His death and life, and the amazing, life-altering truth that Christ has paid the penalty for our sin. Hallelujah! And then the sun comes up on the day after Easter. Easter Monday. What does it mean? What difference does it make? In the light [...]
Once upon a time, when all was perfect and right and beautiful in the world, God planted a garden. After the Creation, after making man, God planted a garden. The first vocation in the Bible is gardening, and it was done by God Himself. God is a gardener.…we see this theme of God as the Gardener [...]
How do you feel about storms? There are those who hunker down for them, those who mitigate against their effects, and those who chase them. There’s a big contrast between being in a storm and watching a storm from a safe place, isn’t there? You may feel like you are in the middle of a [...]
What are some things that manna in the wilderness can teach us about how we live today? God provided for His people in a mighty and unique way when He gave manna. If you wake up hungry, wanting for something specific or wishing for something more, Episode 47 of the Presently Engaged Podcast is for [...]
After the last ornaments were packed up mostly with care for another eleven months in the attic, after the snowflake plates were packaged and foisted up the ladder, only one thing remained to call Christmas cleanup "done." The porcelain nativity, one of my most precious Christmas possessions, would be placed in Styrofoam molds and [...]
We’ve made it through the explosion of Christmas festivities, the delight and joy of celebrating the Savior of the world, the happy haze of the week after Christmas and all the leftovers and sweatpants and snuggles and memories. And now we’re off to a new year! Have you found the just-right place for those presents [...]
