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.

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…

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…

The thing that most consistently brings joy to my life is exercise. That being said, there are still plenty of times I need to motivate myself to get moving. But when I do so, I’m almost always glad that I did.

It used to be that people who were religious were rather uppity and people didn’t care for that. Now it seems to me that people who say they are spiritual but not religious are the uppity ones. Humans are creatures of habit. Although the voices of anarchy are growing louder these days, no one truly…

Before the internet it was easier to ignore our sinfulness. Now that we have the internet we simply can’t ignore the fact that we are all sinners. But the good news is that God still loves us: “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”…