by DB | Jan 18, 2021 | Identity in Christ, Motherhood, Salvation, Uncategorized
Harvard. I had to go to Harvard. It was the best. I was going to be on the Supreme Court — or at least a judge! My 6th-grade teacher wrote in my yearbook something about me in the Ivy League. In late middle school, my parents even took me to some swanky Harvard...
by DB | Dec 21, 2020 | Bible Literacy, Salvation
Have you ever tried to get a child to try something delicious that he has already decided he doesn’t want to eat? “Here, try this.””No. That’s yucky.””How can you say it is yucky? You haven’t tried it.”(Child...
by DB | Nov 9, 2020 | Bible Literacy, Salvation, Suffering
I don’t want to be brand new. I want to be better than brand new. For the last few years, two boards on my deck have become increasingly squishy and rotten. They didn’t look rotten. so I hid their status as long as I could by moving deck furniture to sit...
by DB | Aug 31, 2020 | Emotions, Salvation, Suffering
Why do bad things happen to good people? I’ve never liked that question, but it is important. It makes sense that we ask it. When bad things happen to good people, it feels unjust. God is just. (Job 4:17) He loves justice. (Psalm 11:7, 33:5, 99:4) We are made in...
by DB | Aug 17, 2020 | Emotions, Salvation
I regretted the words as soon as they were out of my mouth. Okay, maybe not the words as much as the tone of my voice… if Drill Sargent is a tone….If you had been there you would have seen the two boys sitting on the other boy in the playground area...
