by Real Living Truth | Apr 25, 2019 | Discipleship, Passion, Purpose, truth
I know, Easter is over, and you’ve moved on to other things. Will you indulge me? It was through Easter that God made this point, but it leads to other things. Here’s how it’s evolved in my Missionary Baptist-Southern Baptist-contemporary Baptist-conservative...
by Real Living Truth | Apr 19, 2019 | Discipleship, Hope in the Future, Passion, Purpose, truth
They say bad things happen in 3’s. I have often wondered why this seems to be true. Remember when Michael Jackson’s untimely death, coupled with the deaths of Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett all occurred in the same week? Many times we’ll see plane crashes...
by Real Living Truth | Apr 11, 2019 | Discipleship, Passion, Purpose, truth
We drove west 288 miles to see this. If I hadn’t seen it myself, I wouldn’t have believed it. I should have known something was up when we walked past this sign: It was a baseball game with eleven-year-old boys; not in the playoffs, just a regular...
by Real Living Truth | Mar 7, 2019 | Discipleship, Passion, Purpose, truth
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything changed for us 1.5 years ago. We moved from our home of 37 years, from the city where we both grew up, to an hour...
by Real Living Truth | Feb 14, 2019 | Passion, Purpose, truth
I found myself in Acts 17 again this week. This is one of my favorites, with all the feels: adventure, respect, rejection, acceptance, ridicule, agreement, repulsion, persuasion, invitation, jealousy, wickedness, mob mentality, inclusion, agitation…I...
by Real Living Truth | Feb 9, 2019 | Discipleship, Passion, Purpose, truth
They were talking behind my back. Of course, at the time I didn’t know they were talking about me–I wasn’t there. Situation 1: She’s a young woman who appears to have it all together. But one Saturday, she breaks, cries to her Mom that although things...
