Waiting Questions

Jim Croegaert has a song, “Waiting,” on his CD, Heaven Knows.  I listened to it on my thousand mile drive to Colorado earlier this week and it’s running through my mind this morning, waiting for a grandbaby. In a personal prophecy a few years ago, a gentle man spoke God’s thoughts: “You’ve felt like there’s …

I Will Yet Praise Him

Why are you downcast, O my soul?                                                                                                                                       Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42: 5, 11 and 43:5 Three times in these two Psalms, the writer admonishes himself. In D. Martin Lloyd-Jones book, Spiritual Depression, which I read years …

Heavy Fellowship

“Take up your cross and follow me,” Jesus says. Three of the four gospel writers record this statement, Matthew twice. (Mark 8:34, Luke 9:23, Matthew 10:38 and 16:24) What does he mean? Growing up on the farm fifty years ago, a neighbor referred to her husband as her “cross to bear.” He didn’t go to …