In my previous Voice of Grace (9/5/2019), I shared about my lack of discipline in waking up early to go to the gym, looking for any excuse to skip out even though I knew the benefits of having that early morning workout. When COVID-19 shut down the country—including gyms—I acknowledged that I would need even more discipline to develop the …
Hey GRC, If you don’t already know this about me, I really enjoy worshiping with you all every Sunday! And I really hope that comes across consistently, mostly because I believe that is how God has wired me to connect with my fellow believers as we live out our lives in a biblical community (one of our church’s core values!). …
Our family of eight just returned from a 3-month road trip out West. (The handiwork of the Lord declares His glory!) Of course, in order to drive out, we had to limit our belongings to what could fit in or on top of the minivan. Just the essentials. What are the essentials? We learned we could live on a lot …
Countless times when I have recited the Lord’s Prayer, I ask myself, “What does it mean to ‘give us this day our daily bread?” In our culture, we use the word “bread “as a synonym for “money”: the wage earner in our household is called “the breadwinner”. Bread remains, at least in our cultural language, a symbol of rudimentary provision …
Earlier this year I read River-Horse, by William Least Heat-Moon. The book details his voyage across the United States, from Elizabeth, NJ to Astoria, OR in a 22-foot long boat. It’s a very entertaining tale, told by the same man who wrote Blue Highways, his journey of driving across the United States on the backroads. I highly recommend both books. …