Last Christmas our friends at AbondanteLiving.com sent our family each a salt pig. Now I had never heard of such a thing before. It is a little crock with an open front and a nob on the top, and you keep your salt in it near your stove top. I have really been enjoying mine, […]

Recently when talking with my son about the blessings God has been pouring out on our family and our congregation, he compared God’s blessings to a big, heavy basket of fruit which is not always easy to carry. A huge load of heavy gifts requires a strong set of shoulders to bear. That has been […]

Many of you saw our town on the news yesterday. We woke up Sunday morning to hear that a sniper had been shooting from the First Presbyterian Church on Saturday night, where we had attended a wedding earlier that day. As the story unfolded, we learned that one of the young women in our congregation […]

“Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another” (Gal. 5:26).
While listening to a tape series, I was struck by an off-hand comment made by the speaker. She said that women are some of the worst misogynists in the world. This is really true. The women’s movement itself is fueled […]

Quietness is the thing which even the busy, noisy part of the world would pretend to desire and pursue: they will be quiet, yea, that they will, or they will not endure the least disturbance of their quietness. But verily they go a mad way to work, in pursuit of quietness; greatly to disquiet themselves […]

God is Kind
A definition: sympathetic, friendly, gentle, tender-hearted, generous. Also note the connection to mercy in many of the verses below. Mercy is a disposition to forgive, pity; it is compassionate, implies forbearance and sympathy. Kindness is bestowing blessings.
Nehemiah 9:17b But you are God, ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in […]