God uses people to bless
A little book I’ve enjoyed is H. Norman Wright’s, Tomorrow Can Be Different. In a chapter where he speaks of friendship, the author writes: … other people are a primary channel through which God pours...
View ArticleCouplet: A foe to God
Thumbing through a little book of short aphorisms, poems and bits of wisdom, I wrote this couplet on reading a line: A foe to God was never a friend of man, Some evil mars his every deed and plan. I’m...
View ArticlePray with us in February
At the beginning of each month, I try to get out an invitation on the main Portuguese site to united prayer. Here’s the prayer for February. You might want to join in with the Brazilian church. My...
View ArticleChoose People
Choose people over things or projects. Eleventh in the series “Choose to Shine.“ Introduction Dealing with the public is the worst thing in the world, someone observed of a job. While some jobs do deal...
View ArticleHappy Friends Day
Here’s a message I wrote this morning (in Portuguese) to a friend who sent me a sweet message about Friend’s Day. This is my thought for you as well. When was Friend’s Day? I let it pass without...
View ArticleA friend indeed
Well-meaning friends with good advice might just kill you. Continue reading →
View ArticleNever too late
A Journey post on poetry, with a teaser of a stanza, talk about Bible versions, preaching, and American visitors. Continue reading →
View ArticleBy telling you the truth
People of the world think the truth is too hard to tell others. So they don’t tell a dying person, for example, that he has little time left to live. They deprive the person of taking advantage of his...
View ArticleMy good friend Joe and John and Jerry, &c.
Of friendship, preaching, and reprogramming the mind. Continue reading →
View ArticleA friend of those who fear God
Meditation on Psalm 119.63: What unites us is our attitude toward God's precepts. Continue reading →
View ArticleMany or few friends
Proverbs 18.24: Not the number, but the kind of friends, is what matters. Continue reading →
View ArticleGlory for friends
Glory to God for brothers and sisters in Christ who are friends indeed, sharing the same faith, the same hope, the same love, the same purpose, the same joy.
View ArticleFriendship to a different tune
John 15.14: Self-interest and selfish conditions disappear from this friendship.
View ArticleGlory for friendship
God is a friend to those who love him do his will. He shares his knowledge and blessing with his friends. “He reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.” He makes us partners in his work of...
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