Posts from November 2025

You’ve likely seen Lucy hold the football for Charlie Brown to kickoff at the annual thanksgiving day game, only to pull it away. His backflop, pain, humiliation, and despair have been felt by many. Once after completing her gag play on our poor comic friend, she states, “Isn’t it peculiar Charle Brown, how some traditions just fade away?” While she meant the tradition of a successful kickoff, we may think of the disappearance of our own observances. Do you remember…

Are you content? Do you have enough? Have unmet goals, less-than-ideal circumstances, and unkept promises unravelled your heart? Navigating this present world can send a dissatisfied soul into dark places. We may even yell at God. (Psalm 73) Scripture gives plenty of counsel on guarding our hearts from covetousness, cultivating contentment, and completely trusting in God’s care over us. Solomon, a man who acquired it all, teaches “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on…

The Scriptures tell us that the Christian life is like running a race. The writer of Hebrews encourages weary runners, “Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Paul tells the Corinthian church “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.” At the end of his life, Paul tells his Timothy, “I have fought the good fight, I have…