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I want to pass along the single best piece of advice I have received to this point in my life. At the time when this advice landed on me as a heavy and well-struck blow, it would be generous to say that my faith was a smoldering wick (Isaiah 42:3). I’m not totally sure there was any spark of faith at all.

The Holy Spirit is sometimes an under-appreciated member of the Trinity that occupies a few catchphrases in our prayers but otherwise is given little thought. There are at least a couple of reasons. First, it is the Holy Spirit’s very nature and role to be deferential to God the Father and the Son.

RING RING RING!!! The shrill and piercing sound of the alarm clock now awakens us with the start of school, and a much earlier start to the day than we had all summer. And, if we are honest, the alarm clock doesn’t just wake us up to start a new day.

A few weekends ago, I was a poser. A good friend of mine invited me and another good friend to go to his fishing cabin for a weekend of trout fishing and relaxation. I’m not a trout fisherman.

In his July 14 post (Are you turning?), Pastor Raby writes about King Jeroboam in 1 Kings 13, who heard the Word of God and stubbornly refused to turn from his evil ways. Jeroboam was a negative example, i.e., don’t be like him.