The magic you’re looking for is in the work that you’re avoiding. — a Rotary Club speaker, from an old pocket notebook of mine

“We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the Gospel is American,” David Platt says, “and how much is biblical.” Whoa. What say you?

Mr. Wesley’s advice — Shake off the dust of your feet against them, and go where you are welcome… If possible, this should be done by fair means. Law is the last and the worst means, though it is sometimes…

With gratitude to an anonymous friend —– Imagine:  you get to heaven  and somebody walks up to youand says,  “I got here because you weren’t afraid  to tell me about Christ Jesus.”

George Santayana was onto some good stuff here: “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” Romans 12;2 is clear: Be transformed the renewing of your mind. How are you and I doing with all that today? What should we…

It’s never too late to become what you might have been. — George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) Or, “who.”Or should that be “whom” in there?Either way, this is about you —  We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to…

“Anyone who stops learning,” said Henry Ford, “is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” Let’s drizzle that over the admonition to Be transformed by the renewing of your mind in Romans 12:2 and move forward. Especially in this month that’s…

He didn’t write about bullfrog named Jeremiah, but he did write Joy to the World and at least 749 other hymns Isaac Watts also said this — Be seriously cheerful and cheerfully serious. — What a great line! Anybody besides…

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If you missed yesterday’s stuff here, slide on back and catch up. I’ll wait. … Okay, you’ve been there and done that? Let me remind you of verses like 1st Thessalonians 5:17 and Ephesians 6:18. Both of those seem to…