Q: What do you get when you reach under poison ivy to retrieve a four-leaf clover?A: A rash of good luck. You’ll never know what I have up my sleeve.Today, for example, it was a dryer sheet. I love jokes about eyes.The cornea, the better. Laughter is like a windshield wiper. It doesn’t stop the… Read More
Bible Doodle: Genesis 12:18-20
As Abram found out, lying is not a good strategy. Fear had made him forget to trust that God was in control, that the promises that God had made to him would really come true. Instead, Abram had counted on his own political strategies and clever dealings with Pharoah, He may have gotten rich, but… Read More
See Me with Your Eyes
This is something we teach. Often adults think they already know this. I hate it when I come home, and people are so mesmerized by their phones or the television, that they don’t return my greeting. I don’t even like it if they mumble an obligatory “hello” but never look up and make eye contact.… Read More
Bible Doodle: Genesis 12:16-17
It seemed that Abram had made a good choice—at least from his point of view. Because his “sister” was part of Pharoah’s harem, everyone wanted to make deals with him. Abram was living a charmed life; he got rich. Sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, manservants, and maidservants, all added to his wealth. His status and power… Read More
Live Life Laughing
Don’t let anyone drive you crazy.You are close enough, and the walk will do you good. How do you stop Canadian bacon from curling in your pan?You take away their little brooms. I bet Waldo owed some people money.You don’t get that good at hiding for no reason.
Bible Doodle: Genesis 13:1-4
So Abram left Egypt and went back to the Negev, he and his wife and everything he owned, and Lot still with him. By now Abram was very rich, loaded with cattle and silver and gold. He moved on from the Negev, camping along the way, to Bethel, the place he had first set up… Read More
Bible Doodle: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to… Read More
