In August 2020 my husband and I took a week-long RV trip to celebrate my birthday and our wedding anniversary. Along with many other families, we discovered during COVID that RV travel offered a good opportunity to meet COVID-19 social distancing requirements while introducing a […]

Most of us will forever remember March 2020 as the month “the world stopped,” the COVID-19 pandemic was declared and our lives were altered for the foreseeable future – a “foreseeable future” whose parameters continue to move even two years later. Business and church shutdowns, […]

Dr. Craig Keener, F.M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary, caught my attention a year ago with an article entitled, “Do the Dead Still Rise?” (CHRISTIANITY TODAY, June 2019, pp. 46-50). Keener noted that stories of actual bodily resurrections – […]

https://www.onethousandgenerationsoflove.com/recommitment-to-liberty-for-all/ Francis Marion, a Revolutionary War hero, figures prominently in Book One. Known as the “Swamp Fox,” Marion was a guerilla warrior before there were guerilla warriors. His headquarters was at Snow’s Island in the midst of the vast, winding Pee Dee Cypress Swamp in northeastern South Carolina.

In late December, 2019, my feisty and oh-so-wise friend Judy asked innocently, “Did you read the Seedbed Daily Text, by J.D. Walt,1 this morning?”

In the early 1990s, I read an account of Vineyard Association Founder John Wimber’s decision to follow Christ subsequent to an intense reading of the biblical books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. On the first Sunday after his conversion, Wimber chose to attend a […]

Dear readers, A long stretch of travel with intermittent or nonexistent Internet last fall, followed by technical glitches just now getting resolved, have prevented me from posting for far too long!  If you’re a new follower, please read my first four blogs to catch the […]

We would be crazy NOT to take God up on His promise to shower unfailing love and faithfulness on one thousand generations of those who embrace the new life He offers us through Jesus Christ.   We have NOTHING to lose – and EVERYTHING to gain! […]

It’s a strange paradox that remembering is vital to our forward movement as human beings – physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. A person who suffers a traumatic brain injury must be re-taught how to do simple movements he or she learned as an infant and […]

One of the most stunning concepts I encountered in 25 years of teaching the Bible to adults came during a class on the doctrine of creation. “God creates from the future, not the past,” said Dr. Ted Peters, on a video produced for the long-term […]