As I sat down at my computer to write today’s reflection, I began by typing in the date: “9/11 …” Before my fingers touched the keys for the year, 2014, I felt a...
Today is the final part of this mini-series responding to the question: What helps you pay attention...
Our lives are so rushed, so filled with activities and information, that we often don’t pay attention...
Last week, we began focusing on the first part of Ephesians 5:15, “Be very careful, then, how...
In yesterday’s reflection, we focused on the first part of Ephesians 5:15, “Be very careful, then, how...
I love to hike. Hiking is my favorite hobby, my favorite form of exercise, and my favorite...
Have you ever been reading along in a good novel when, for a few days or weeks, your attention was called elsewhere...
When I was in high school, I became enthralled by a statement attributed to the Greek philosopher Socrates. In the Apology, written...
I follow a simple rule of thumb in my life: Don't fall asleep while driving. This is common sense, of course. But something about sitting in a car, even while I am driving...
When I was a teenager, needing ample sleep I rarely got, waking me up in the morning was rather like raising the dead.
When people see the fruit of the light in us, the deeds of darkness will be exposed as fruitless and empty. What is the goal of this exposing?
In yesterday's reflection, I suggested that we are to "expose" the "fruitless deeds of darkness" not by...
Once we were Gentiles living in darkness. But, we who have become children of light through Christ...
What does it mean to expose the deeds of darkness? How should we do this?
As Christians, we are "light in the Lord" and "children of light" (5:8). Yet we continue to live in a world of...
Before we received God's grace through faith, we lived in the world of darkness. In fact, we "were once darkness."
Today, I want to reflect a bit more on the process of discovering which actions are pleasing to God (and, therefore, which...
As I reflect on this passage from Ephesians, I find myself more and more impressed by something I might easily have taken for granted. Verse 10 says that we are to "find out...
Today, I want to focus our attention on one little word, a word that could be easily overlooked, a word that has the potential to change your life. I'm talking about the word "all."
I began yesterday's reflection with a simple confession: I want to live a fruitful life. I suggested that you want to do the same.
