Prayer Is About Presence, Not Perfection
“And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners [...]
Happy First Anniversary to The Word Steward Blog!
Also with the lute I will praise You— And Your faithfulness, O my God! To You I will sing with the harp, O Holy [...]
Keeping the Record While Honoring the Redemption
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to [...]
He Who Has Created These Things
Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all [...]
Misadventures with My Rebellious Pelvis
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I [...]
Family Vacations Matter: Rest, Gratitude, and God’s Gift of Renewal
What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun? —Ecclesiastes 1:3 Did you know that almost [...]
Happy 250th Anniversary, America!
“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their [...]
Hope for Haiti, One Meal at a Time
“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least [...]
Father’s Day: It’s Complicated, Part 2
“For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth [...]
How to Make a Neurotic Chick
My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. —Psalm 73:26 On a blustery [...]