Wilderness Survival Guide

I like to camp. I enjoy heading out into the wilderness, putting up a tent. Building a fire. Looking up at the stars. Hearing the sounds of the forest. I enjoy that. But when I say “wilderness” what I really mean is Babler State Park, where you drive in on a paved road, park your…

Destiny in the Desert

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, Exodus 3:1a The area of Midian where Moses is tending sheep is a rocky, mountainous desert. There’s not a lot of vegetation in Midian. This is not a good job. I’m sure his father-in-law Jethro was a great guy, but, I…

Sufficient Grace For Insufficiency

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them….

Strength In Weakness

“So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,…