Dear Friends, Recently I’ve been pondering the idea of “ownership”. My thoughts are a result of a book I’m reading in which the author says that Americans tend to have an unhealthy perception of what they own, and what they don’t. He said that you can always tell when a person misunderstands ownership by how often they use the word “my”. So I decided I would try to keep track of how often I used the word “my”, just to see how I measured up to what the author was saying. And w

Dear Friends, For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to spend time each day pondering John 15:5. If you’re not familiar with that verse, it’s where Jesus says: “I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in Me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.” The reason I’ve been daily pondering this verse is because “abiding” is something I have a hard time doing. Instead, my focus tends to be more on "doing” and "producing". And wh