by sworel | Sep 14, 2025 | 2025, Musings
In Matthew 22, a snarky attorney confronted Jesus with a very important question. He asked, “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus quickly replied, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This...
by sworel | Sep 7, 2025 | 2025, Musings
The Bible has three different New Testament words for a “servant.” “Doulos” refers to the slaves that were captured by an invading army and put into servitude. Their jobs were assigned to them. Often, they had no choice but to work or be beaten. The second term is...
by sworel | Aug 31, 2025 | 2025, Musings
A few years back there was a very funny commercial highlighting back-to-school attitudes. It showed a mom or dad skipping through the store dropping school supplies into a cart. The children, with very sad faces, were slowly dragging their heels behind the parent! The...
by sworel | Aug 24, 2025 | 2025, Musings
Soon our kids are headed back to school. For the most part, they have new backpacks, cool new lunchboxes, pencils, pens, scissors and even some brightly colored file folders. You would think that they are all ready. But they are not! They are missing their armor of...
by sworel | Aug 17, 2025 | 2025, Musings
The human body is an amazing creation. I am told that we can distinguish some 10,000 different smells. The tissue in our brains weighs only 3 pounds, but there are complex interactions of thousands of synapses taking place at nano-speed that allow us to quickly...
by sworel | Aug 10, 2025 | 2025, Musings
The last several weeks or so have been especially challenging for me. I took a trip up to Alaska to spread my dad’s ashes along his favorite river and then headed to Vancouver to catch a cruise. But I got extremely ill and just came on home. I landed in the hospital...
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