PD’s Reflections (Page 19)

PD’s Reflections (Page 19)

IS GOD’S WORD ENOUGH?

Early this week, I was perusing Facebook. Perhaps wasting time would be a better description of it. I usually do a quick scroll through the latest updates until I see something that catches my eye which may be a video or something happening in the life of a friend or a quote. That was what I noticed the other day, a quote by pastor and author David Platt. What if we take away the cool music and the cushioned chairs,…

WORSHIP

This semester for school I am doing two Old Testament survey classes. I have been reading through the first half of the Old Testament & reading a couple of textbooks that offer comments and information on that biblical reading. Last week, I was reading through the textbook portion dealing with the book of Numbers. I read this at the end of one of the paragraphs dealing with Numbers 7:1-10:10 and the offerings the tribal leaders were bringing for the tabernacle.…

“I AM WITH YOU”

Michelle and I were reading from our devotional book the other night before we went to sleep. In the course of the few pages, we read Jesus’ words to the disciples in Matthew 28:20. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age. Matthew 28:20 NET I like this verse generally as it is a part of the great commission given by Jesus. This verse came alive for me though during one of my Biblical Greek…

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! NOT WHAT YOU THINK.

Some years ago, there was a shift from the usual greetings of Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to a generic phrase of “Happy Holidays”.  For some it was a move to be politically correct.  It only angered others for various reason which we won’t get into here.  Many Christians hold very tightly to the holidays of Christmas and Easter.  And yet as tightly as we hold to them, I think we have forgotten holidays of even greater…

THE JOY OF BEING WITH DAD

With the heat, there has been a number of pictures of snow circulating Facebook recently warning about complaining of the heat.  On a morning back in April there was a fresh snowfall had fallen from the night before, and it covered the driveway and walkways.  I remembered pausing the night before as I went into the house and heard the frogs croaking while the snowflakes were falling.  I found it rather strange to see and hear those two things happening simultaneously. I…

THE DOMINO EFFECT OF “I WANT”

The following is not original to me, but the message is convicting.  I remember so often as a child telling my parents that I wanted something and then convincing myself mentally that I needed it.  The problem that I had and that others do as well is that we are very good at convincing ourselves.  And we convince ourselves that this thing will satisfy us.  Of course, there is only One who can.  Read the following to see how this…

LEARNING TO COUNT

Over the course of the last year, my son has been learning to count and identify numbers.  He gets better at it each day.  His sister has been trying to copy him so she repeats certain numbers after him and is starting to identify a few herself.  Through this process of his learning, my wife and I have been working specifically on his identification of numbers.  It was easy for him early on to count one through ten by memory. …

GETTING PERSPECTIVE

2 Corinthians 4:7-18 My wife and I were out on our deck last night enjoying a small camp fire and the quiet of the night. It was a good pause to the busy Monday we had and chance for us to catch up on the days events. After we spent some time talking and watching the flames dance in front of us, we turned to June 17th in the devotional. See we’ve been reading through Paul Tripp’s book “New Morning…