My middle daughter started playing tennis last spring. The city runs a tennis center with group coaching classes, so we gave it a shot. Initially, she was grouped with the younger (and less experienced kids). She showed up for every session, practiced at home in good weather, and eventually joined the advanced group. She often… Continue reading Growing in Faith: Scripture Writing Plan March 2023
Sowing Seeds: February 2023 Scripture Writing Plan
What is your favorite part about gardening? For some, it's picking out seeds and imagining the produce that will come once the plant is fully grown. Although the ground is frozen, the time has come to do some garden planning. I'm a long way from starting a full garden, but I do plan to do… Continue reading Sowing Seeds: February 2023 Scripture Writing Plan
Purposeful Preparation: January 2023 Scripture Writing Plan
Do you make preparations for different events? For instance, have you ever prepared to… Teach a class? Interview a candidate or be interviewed? Stock up for a natural disaster? Meet someone new? Welcome a new baby? Get married? Resist illness? Are you someone who prefers to prepare… …or do you wing it? When it comes… Continue reading Purposeful Preparation: January 2023 Scripture Writing Plan
Transformed in Christ: Scripture Writing Plan December 2022
Before the age of 7, he lost his mother to tuberculosis. Before he reached 12, his father had him traveling the seas. By the time he was 18, the British Navy pressed him into service. At 23, he was involved in the slave trade—first as a sailor, then as a captain—until his health forced him… Continue reading Transformed in Christ: Scripture Writing Plan December 2022
Abundance: Scripture Writing Plan November 2022
What abundance do you currently enjoy? If you are able to eat three meals a day, live in a relatively comfortable space, and wear clothes (and shoes), you already have abundantly more than many people in the world. God did not make physical prosperity a temperature gauge for spiritual health. If He had, then the… Continue reading Abundance: Scripture Writing Plan November 2022
Lessons from the Wilderness: Scripture Writing Plan October 2022
The desert is a desolate place. It's dry. It's dusty. It's either miserably hot or bitterly cold--there is rarely a mild day. To top it off, there is a minimal vegetation as far as the eye can see. Any visible plants include shrubs, succulents, palms or spindly Joshua Trees (in certain parts of the world).… Continue reading Lessons from the Wilderness: Scripture Writing Plan October 2022
Remember… September 2022 Scripture Writing Plan
About this time last year, I was quarantined with Covid. In addition to the buffet of symptoms I had during my infection, I suffered from some post-covid symptoms as well. The worst post-covid symptom was memory loss. For weeks I wrestled with what I can only categorize as alzheimer's-like symptoms. As I tried to tutor… Continue reading Remember… September 2022 Scripture Writing Plan
Seek and You Shall Find: Scripture Writing Plan August 2022
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;his going out is sure as the dawn;he will come to us as the showers,as the spring rains that water the earth.Hosea 6.3, ESV Completing a course of study does not make one an "expert" on that subject; it simply makes a person more knowledgable in that subject.… Continue reading Seek and You Shall Find: Scripture Writing Plan August 2022
I Am Free
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and deathRomans 8.1-2 I have been set free. In studying the holocaust, I have often wondered… Continue reading I Am Free
Prophesied & Fulfilled: Scripture Writing Plan June 2022
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”Matthew 5:17-18 ESV Throughout… Continue reading Prophesied & Fulfilled: Scripture Writing Plan June 2022
Elihu's Corner 