“If God is all-loving and all-powerful, why doesn’t he do something about the evil, pain, and suffering in the world? Perhaps he is all-loving, but not all-powerful and, therefore, cannot do something. Or perhaps he is all-powerful, but not all-loving, and therefore...
In consideration of the avalanche of 60-70K thoughts that we each have every day (see 3-21-20 CV19Daily) and of which a vast majority are negative, how do we learn to accommodate the positive thoughts? Our thoughts jostle and influence us in our actions and...
“The average person experiences 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day, according to the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of Southern California…a large percentage of those thoughts are about what can go wrong, what will go wrong, what we’ve done...
Many of you have heard me reference the “RLV” (Ron Lawler Version of the Bible). Here is Proverbs 21:19 in today’s RLV: “It is better to live in harsh deprivation, than [implied: with ease and comfort] with bad family...
Today, I would like to encourage more of a dialogue with you. How are you coping with the COVID 19 crisis? The Lord willing and my tech skills not bringing it to a halt, I will post some sort of brief, shall we call it, devotional aimed at encouraging us during...
Are you old enough to remember nuclear bomb drills? We would all be ushered out into the halls and were told to kneel and put our hands behind our necks. Having seen pictures of atomic blasts, even as a grade-schooler, I could not see the point. I recall asking one of my...
The first half of Proverbs 18:14 proclaims, "The human spirit can endure in sickness…" (NIV) God has designed people to be remarkably resilient. During insurmountable suffering, think Nazi death camps, famine, abuse by terrorists, and of course plagues, in those settings of...
I have named this blog CV 19 Daily. Hopefully, these comments will bring a ray of hope to us who are under skies overcast with uncertainty. “Perfect love drives out fear” 1 John 4:18 (NIV). Regarding this verse C.S. Lewis muses, “But so do several other...
It is common to experience anything from latent to full blown anxiety when life changes. Let those changes be a new experience coupled with a significant lack of information and various degrees of emotional discomfort are to be expected. There is not "a particular way" that everyone...
Proverbs 15:30 (NIV) says, "Light in a messenger's eyes brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones." What we should not do is "Awfulize" our current challenge. Jim Laxson first introduced me to the word "awfulize" and every time I use it, people nod in agreement...
