The Daily Memo | January 9, 2024 | Forgive Jesus
Forgive God? This idea is going to cause some readers to freak out. Just listen for a moment. If you are holding something in your heart against Jesus — the loss of someone you love, a painful memory from your past, simply the way your life has turned out — if you are holding that […]
The Daily Memo | December 29, 2023 | No Tomorrow Guaranteed
We all felt the pain of the moment when it was reported that Michele, a 61-year-old women, had died tragically when a propane tank exploded in the office at a small local motel in our community. She was a night auditor there and had worked for the family-owned business for 34 years. Our hearts are […]
The Daily Memo | December 28, 2023 | Forgiveness and Forgetting
Jill Price was born with the condition of hyperthymesia: the ability to remember in extraordinary detail everything that ever happened to her. She can replay in her mind the exact occurrence of any event she’s experienced in her lifetime. The TV show Unforgettable was premised on a female police officer with hyperthymesia—to her a great […]
The Daily Memo | December 22, 2023 | His Unique Gift
They will call him Immanuel, which means “God is with us.” (Matthew 1:23 NLT) I was listening to a few refrains from “O Holy Night”: “A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices” and something deep in my spirit said, O yes, dear Jesus, we need hope. Come for this weary world. Actually, this world […]
The Daily Memo | December 5, 2023 | King of the Hill
Do you remember the playground game King of the Hill? My buddies and I would fight tooth and nail, arms and legs flailing to get to the top of that dirt pile, taking no prisoners. My only goal was to get to the top and hold that position under any circumstances. Bruised limbs, scuffed knees, […]
The Daily Memo | December 1, 2023 | The Stream of Counseling
This stream of Counseling doesn’t just flow to us directly from Christ, only from him; it flows through his people as well. We need others—and need them deeply. Yes, the Spirit was sent to be our Counselor. Yes, Jesus speaks to us personally. But often he works through another human being. The fact is, we […]
