A Step of Obedience

Choosing between a good decision and a bad decision is usually pretty simple.  It’s not always easy, but It’s usually simple.  The choice is usual clear. Good.  Bad. But what about when you think you are making a good decision and you’re asked to do something different?  Not something bad, just something different, perhaps something…

Step out . . . In Faith

He was their entire life.  And they were incredibly thankful. They knew people who had never been able to have children, and even those they only had one, he meant the world to them.    It wasn’t that they couldn’t conceive, that they were able to do, but some cruel twist of fate made his…

Step out With Abraham

When Michelangelo was 72 years old he started work on the monumental dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.  When Galileo was 74 he published his dialogue concerning two new sciences.  When Stradivarius was in his early 90s he fashioned two of his most famous violins.  When P.T Barnum was 71 he joined James Bailey to form…

Damascus Road Experience

Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.  Those words were penned over a hundred years ago by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde but they could very well have been written about a young man named Saul who came to a pivotal point in his life where he would have to choose to…

A Millstone around my Neck

It is the stuff of nightmares, you’re unable to breathe, the pressure is closing in and your last thoughts reflect on what you wished you had done.  Regrets fill your mind, if onlys become your focus and as the darkness increases your struggles decrease until what was you has departed and what is left is…