Do you have PEACE?
I’ve had the most wonderful privilege of visiting the Holy Land three times, and in each of my visits there I have learned more and more about the Hebrew Language. Hebrew is the language that the Old Testament of the Bible was originally written. Something you notice quickly is that the common greeting in Israel […]
Springtime: Evidence of LIFE
What a wonderful time of year this is! Have you noticed all the bluebonnets? It just reminds us that following the Winter, Spring always comes. Life goes on and its cycles continue. If you’re feeling like the winter won’t end, just hang on because the blossoms of Springtime are on the way! God’s creation is […]
The Kind of Love that Overcomes Fear
1 John 4:7-17 says, “Those who are loved by God, let His love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of Him. 8 The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love. 9 The light of God’s love […]
Taste and See
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the […]
Roots
This weekend gave me sufficient time to ponder the importance of roots. That may be a vague title because “roots” are a fairly broad category! Roots are obviously very significant in the plant world, and they are important in the study of ancestry and family lines. I happened to be pondering my own family roots, […]
The Great & Mighty Things
The first article of the year is an important one to me. I was contemplating what I was supposed to write about and the answer came in a number. I got home from the Middle East after midnight Friday, still dealing with quite a bit of jetlag, I was wide awake at 3:33 this morning. […]
Merry Christmas from us at Clearview!
Merry Christmas to all of you! What a blessing you are to us, and I mean that from the depths of my heart! It is a wonderful privilege we have to serve you here at Clearview; Suzzi, Elaunda & I genuinely love the work that we get to do and it is our joy to […]
Identity: the fact of being who a person is
Identity: the fact of being who a person is Now I have a personal question to ask you: Who defines who you are? Do we most often allow humans to define who we are? This can be a negative or positive thing obviously…and problematically we never know which it will be! When other people are […]
REAL FAITH: When Hard Times Come
My family has been walking through one of the hardest seasons any of us have ever been entrusted with in the past 3 decades. We are in many ways exhausted, we are mourning, yet in the midst of all of it…we are filled with the hope of this extravagant Savior of ours. Jesus is more […]
So Loved He The World
My grandmother has played the piano for decades at her church in west Texas…I was thinking of one of the hymns I heard her play so many times. It says, “To God be the glory, great things He hath done, so loved He the world that He gave us His Son…” That line comes from […]