Internet Cafe: Spiritual Sprinkler System
A section of our sprinkler system stopped working, so a patch of our lawn did not get watered all summer long. We live in South Texas, and the southern heat dried up that patch of grass, leaving it...
View ArticleInternet Cafe: Enhanced Soup
Every morning, I read a devotional with my kids during breakfast. We have a large collection of devotional books in a drawer of the kitchen curio cabinet, including some of my own. One morning we read...
View ArticleInternet Cafe: Pressure Holes
There is a lot of construction taking place near my home. When I leave our subdivision, whether I go right or left, there are great machines digging, drilling and moving materials around. One day as I...
View ArticleInternet Cafe: The First Step
“First step towards redemption is repentance.” I tweeted this quote the other day. In my mind, I could see an entire process of repentance and redemption taking place in my life, but on Twitter I only...
View ArticleInternet Cafe: A Necklace and a Movie
“Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.” – Jeremiah 33.3 (NLT) Two recent life experiences have taught me a powerful spiritual truth. The first one...
View ArticleInternet Cafe: The Epaulette Shark
The epaulette shark walks on land….well, kind of. It is the only shark that lives in water so shallow that when the tide recedes at night, the shark is literally landlocked. It is able to live more...
View ArticleInternet Cafe:To Evacuate or Not
Watching the Weather Channel, I had to make a decision. It was a Thursday late morning and I was just about to work out, but a tropical storm was becoming Hurricane Harvey and it was heading our way...
View ArticleThe Second Time Around- Internet Cafe
I am learning that there is no such thing as failure with the Lord. God is so imaginative and all-powerful that even what we see as defeat can be merely a set up for a future victory. God does not...
View ArticleStick With It – Internet Cafe
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths” – Proverbs...
View ArticleChristmas without Shame
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him” (John 3.17 NIV). Every Christmas, I feel God giving me a personal theme of what He wants to...
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