On the Edge

Hello, dear brother or sister in the Lord. It’s your fellow contender once again emerging from your mailbox and into your living room. It’s a new year, and I’m blessed with this opportunity to share my heart with you. I never saw the movie of about 30 years ago called “2001 Space Odyssey,” but I think that, for me, 2001 will …

Hello there, dear contender in the human race. May the blessings of God be upon you as you continue to press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. What a walk this is, huh? Lately, as I have struggled to suppress the “self-full-ness” (I just made up that word) wedged within me, …

Hi there. Hey, watch your step, we’re on the edge. A friend of mine recently equated that concept with “dancing on the rim of a cup.” She said that the key to successful Christian living is “finding the balance” in each aspect of life. That phrase, however, could lead one to think of standing still, when, in reality, life is …

Hello there, Mr./Ms. Contender for the faith. Thank you for once again giving me the opportunity of sharing my heart with you. Let us embark together on a brief literary excursion—a journey through letters, words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs that I hope will bring you closer to the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. Saying that reminds me that …

Hello once again, dear follower of him who is The Way. Today I pause to look both backward and forward on the spectrum of my life. I hope that as I reflect upon my life to date and how our heavenly Father has graciously worked with me, you will in some way identify with me, think about how He has …

Greetings once again, “gentle reader.” Where on earth did that phrase come from? Are all readers gentle? Was Attila the Hun illiterate? Has Dennis Rodman never owned a library card? OK, I’ll get back to reality. Actually, that’s what I’m trying to do each day, and it is God’s Reality I seek. I made that a capital “R” because there …

If you want to do a very practical biblical study, look at the words “one another” in Acts and the Church Epistles. You will find about 40 associated verbs, most of them imperative. There are many things you and I are commanded by God to be, think, do and say to our brethren in the Lord. In these relational attitudes …

God bless you, fellow sower of the good seed. Here we are once again—on the edge. As I begin this, my third “On The Edge” column, I wonder how many readers have decoupaged the first two and have them mounted prominently in their homes. Hey, I’m just kidding. A scrapbook is fine. Actually, I get a real kick out of …

HO! HO! HO! I started with that because it’s the Christmas season, and Santa is one of the few clauses not in this column. Yes, it’s the last month of the year, and time for another session On The Edge. I sure do love the challenge of choosing and assembling the small clusters of letters we know as “words” into …

Hey, here we are again on the edge, so we had best read the theme verses for this column. 1 Peter 5:6–8 (6) Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, [so] that he may lift you up in due time. (7) Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. (8) Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the …