The musings of John Shirey, old man about town, Christian apologist
If prayer is talking to God, then doesn’t it make a little bit of sense that it should be a conversation? So we have to listen from time to time. I love Blackaby and King’s Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God. It’s essence is “trust and obey.” But a premise is that …
I have a lot of laws. These are not prescriptive laws, like “Speed Limit 55,” but rather descriptive laws, like the law of gravity. They are observed phenomena – things I’ve noticed as being true for everyone in all situations. These are those laws about gardening that I’ve observed over the past 30 years of …
Do you dream? I do from time to time. Our church has a ministry that includes dream interpretation, and a member of the team gave an overview of its purposes and methods to my Middle School Sunday School class during the summer. I remember very little about the interpretations aspect, but one thing he said …
I started this post last summer and bumped into it a couple of days ago. Granted, it is the middle of winter, but hey! Perhaps a little gardening thought will warm us all up. I was weeding yesterday afternoon and discovered these principles about weeds. Previously I’ve described some of their characteristics – like – …
Or is it “are” just so wrong? I read this on a piece of first-grade work pinned to a colleague’s office wall yesterday. It struck a chord in my soul. A discordant chord. I’m getting old. 62 in less than two weeks. I confess that I used to like diagramming sentences in junior high school. …