June 8, 2018 DAILY READING Romans 8:14-17Psalm 33:12-22This weekend’s reading: Hebrews 10:19-25 FIELD NOTES I think of some of my favorite books and movies– how many are underdog stories? The Lord of the Rings is about how the smallest, most inconsequential beings in all of Middle-Earth are ultimately what it needs to defeat evil. In Hoosiers,…

June 7, 2018 DAILY READING Acts 2:1-11Psalm 33:12-22This weekend’s reading: Hebrews 10:19-25 FIELD NOTES In high school, I went on a mission trip with an organization to the Florida panhandle.  We helped fix up a home in a very poor fishing village just outside of Pensacola.  One night, the mission organization invited all of the groups…

June 6, 2018 DAILY READING John 3:31-36Psalm 99This weekend’s reading: Hebrews 10:19-25 FIELD NOTES When speaking of Jesus in his tome, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis has this to say: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher,…

June 5, 2018 DAILY READING 1 Peter 4:7-11Psalm 99This weekend’s reading: Hebrews 10:19-25 FIELD NOTES Recently, I heard a story of a woman who could have appeared on the television show Hoarders.  The woman at the center of the story could not move around her house, for it was full of trash, animal waste, and even…

June 4, 2018

June 2, 2018 DAILY READING Psalm 139This weekend’s reading: Matthew 5:43-48 FIELD NOTES How wonderful to know we worship a God that has searched us and known us, each and every one of us, and still loves us!  He calls us wonderful!  You are wonderful in the sight of God!  Our God is a god who…

June 1, 2018 DAILY READING Romans 8This weekend’s reading: Matthew 5:43-48 FIELD NOTES When I was in high school, one of my absolute most favorite verses was found in Romans 8.  “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? No… For…

May 31, 2018 DAILY READING Exodus 31This weekend’s reading: Matthew 5:43-48 FIELD NOTES Exodus’ commands on keeping the Sabbath in Exodus 31 are intense: “Keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who violates the Sabbath will be put to death. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath, that person will be cut off…

May 30, 2018   DAILY READING Numbers 6This weekend’s reading: Matthew 5:43-48   FIELD NOTES Recent studies have shown that depression and acute anxiety rates are on the rise, especially among youth and young adults starting at age 12. The reasons are complex and complicated and I am far from a psychiatrist, but experts suggest that a lack…