Category: The Graceline

The last verse in the book of Judges is rather sobering and regrettably not unlike the culture of our day. It says, “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). When we don’t have strong leadership, who rely…

The Eye of the Needle (by Charlotte Baker) The biggest obstacle we face when it comes to allowing Jesus to live His life in us, through us, for us, and as us is our talents and gifts. We rely on our abilities as our source rather than Him. This story…

Then Jesus said to the disciples, “Have faith in God. I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart.…

I don’t know if you have noticed lately, but frowns are outnumbering smiles by a mile. Just take a walk around a shopping mall. People look like dying calves in a hail storm. A lot have plugs in their ears. They have their eyes glued to a flat box which…

Confess. What comes to your mind when you hear that word? Confess your sins? Confess to a crime? Come clean of some wrong doing? Do your really know what the word, confess, means? 1.to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation. 2.to own or…

And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint. —Galatians 6:9 The other night in our men’s meeting while…

Our hummingbirds were late coming back this spring, but they are making up for lost time. We now have at least a half dozen humming around our four feeders. They sound like dive bombers as they whiz by your head. As beautiful as they are on the outside, their inner…

I have spent most of my life tugging on unripe fruit. Those who are not quite ready to allow Jesus to transform them into His image. They are not bad. They are just not ready or open to hearing the gospel quite yet. They need time to ripen. Meanwhile, I…

Punkin is our cat. Wanda still calls her Cinderella. Neither name fits her. She is an assassin. She has killed birds, mice, moles, bunnies, and snakes. She is a predator. Now that doesn’t mean she won’t let you scratch her head and belly until your arm falls off while she…

My iPhone 6s is three years old. That is like 50 years in technological time. And it is acting like an old man. It has been draining charge in a day. It cuts off when I answer calls. My GPS just stops working. It tells me the next turn is…