Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength

Welcome to this blog. It contains my thoughts on our efforts to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. My current update schedule is once a week as time permits. Thank you for reading.

Sunday, December 07, 2025

Long-time married folks' best advice on staying married

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It is rare that I take inspiration from the comment section of another conversation. But I think the content here merits it. This post asked...
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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Awe, wonder, and reverence: Experiences that cleanse

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Some emotions cannot coexist. Awe, wonder, and reverence are bone-deep emotions that cleanse away fear or malice or resentment. As such they...
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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Thanksgiving 2025

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This year has been (mostly) a good and productive year. I am grateful for my children, my Bible-study friends, my recovery-group friends, a ...
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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Spiritual exercise and challenge: no unwholesome talk

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"Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grac...
Sunday, November 09, 2025

A dark view of human nature -- and the road to fellowship

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Human nature, without fellowship with God, is ungodly. And human nature, without fellowship with each other, tends to the inhumane.  Sometim...
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Sunday, November 02, 2025

With our words we will be acquitted

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There are times when Jesus was clearly using figures of speech, and others when I expect it's wisest to take him very literally. One sit...
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Sunday, October 26, 2025

Struggling Saints

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The hymn "For All The Saints" is traditionally sung on All Saints Day, coming soon on the calendar. I have an additional verse tha...
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