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Please pray for me today. I can’t give details, but pray for wisdom from above for a difficult day, and safety as we travel.
I’m up too early worrying through the problems of the day, but then also driving home tonight (15 hrs) with a nearly equally weary co-driver.

This thought buried in Lamentations 3 shifted how I think of the question about how a good and all powerful God allows bad things to happen. Verse 33 says: “For He doth not afflict willingly...” Did you ever think of God doing something unwillingly? There are chores we all kinda grit our teeth about...

I am curious if Timothy was written before or after Philemon. Anyone know right off?

Thank you Max. That would be very much in line with the way I’ve been taught as well.

So Max, I understand what you are saying about focusing on your walk with Christ and not politics, but how would you have lived that out during the civil war? Would you have compassion on runaway slaves? Just keep quiet and keep your head down? Turn them in?

I was struck this morning with how we see the Bible through the filter of what we believe. When we do this we have things backwards! But explain to me how we aught to understand 1 Timothy 6:1-2 especially, but also in context. Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy...

I was away over the time of the storm but got home yesterday. Power came back on today! :) Kind people cleaned out my fridge/freezer and added it to my brother’s stuff. He ran his work generator for his own fridge/freezers. Over all we faired fairly well. My house and yard just need cleaned up. My b...

Josh wrote:Various plain disaster relief groups are organising to head down to the Panhandle. From what I hear, there’s going to be a lot of work to do for quite a while.

Thank you!

Talking to someone the other day who mentioned how little they had heard about Michael compared to all the coverage of Francis. I’m not sure if they would still feel that way or not. Francis was a slow moving storm which gave people lots of time to talk about where it was headed and what preparation...

There is more that I’d like to change about me when I consider it.