Feb 27, 2026

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor” (Deuteronomy 5:21).

It is commonly understood that the fourth commandment, the one about resting on the Sabbath, is...

Feb 25, 2026

     Praise the Lord (Psalm 150:1).

Once, I took a two-week class with the late Dallas Willard. He began with two instructions. Each of us was to sleep 10 hours a night and we were to find a lonely place and shout Psalms 145-150 to the Lord. He explained that fatigue was one of the greatest problems in the North...

Feb 23, 2026

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it (Genesis 2:15).

In her book, Letters to a Diminished Church, Dorothy Sayers has a few paragraphs about work. She argues that our financial system has subordinated people to economics. Workers are merely part of the machine in...

Feb 22, 2026

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings!  The text is Galatians 5:16-23. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

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Feb 20, 2026

When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”—skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales, buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat (Amos 8:5-6).