What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? The best thing to do when negative feelings come along is to wait. Feelings come and go and an urgent sense of panic is almost always an indication that evil forces are arrayed against you.
Sometimes the King James Version is still the best: “My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy word.” (Psalm 119:28)Come to think of it, Psalm 119 has several great passages about the strength and comfort of God’s word:Verse 81: “My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my…
The first and foremost duty of the exegete (interpreter of Scripture) consists in holding the flighty spirit of man to the simple word of Scripture and, where he has departed from it, to lead him back to the simple words of Scripture. Francis Pieper, DD I wish Adam and Eve had followed this advice when…
As a teenager, my favorite album was Deep Purple’s Machine Head, which included such classics as “Smoke on the Water” and “Highway Star.” More recently my favorite album is Raising Sand, the wonderful collaboration between Led Zeppelin’s lead singer Robert Plant and bluegrass phenomenon Alison Krauss, that won the Grammy for album of the year in 2009.
The names of my three older sisters all begin with K so I guess it was inevitable that my name would start with a K. I’m told my parents had the name Kevin picked out for my older brother but when he was born, they didn’t think he looked like a Kevin, so they chose…
The recent Covid epidemic accelerated the rate at which employees were allowed to work from home. This has left many parts of the world with office buildings that have stood empty for up to three years. Now some creative people are repurposing these empty office buildings into vertical farms, basically places where food is grown…
When I first read this prompt, I thought it said, “What do you enjoy writing about most?” and the answer to that is easy. I enjoy writing most about all things related to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Even when I start writing about a topic that does not appear to have anything to…
Today’s writing prompt made me think of the Pyramid television game shows that have been around since 1973. In each round of the game a person gives clues to their partner in hopes of getting them to guess the answer, which is usually a phrase that starts with “Things that…”. The more answers the guesser…
The three books that have had the most impact on me are the Holy Bible, the Lutheran Worship hymnal and the novel The Life of Pi. The Bible is God’s Word. I do not need some scholar to tell me this, the Bible itself convinces me that it is God’s Word. Do not debate with…
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