Archive for March 2026

“But Ruth said, ‘Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.”(Ruth 1:16 ESV) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about pace. Not the pace of…

“A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” (Proverbs 18:24 ESV) I met my best friend (the one that’s not my wife) on the first day of Hermeneutics class in our freshman year of university. To give some context, I was rigid. I had…

“Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family.”  (Proverbs 18:24 MSG) As a global worker I find it difficult when I make new friends and then they quickly move away because of whatever reason. I remember about 20 years ago, there was a new person at our church in Prague. I…

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” (Proverbs 17:17 ESV) I had a conversation recently with a friend where I apologised for having been a bad friend. Basically, I was sharing some personal struggles and failures with him not because I wanted the support of a friend, but because…

“but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” (John 15:15 NAS95) I’ve spent the last 15 years taking a daily, slow, repeated, awarenessful walk through the Gospels. I say awarenessful (odd word, right?) because my desire focused on paying attention to…