by Mike Woodruff | Jul 23, 2021 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday, How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Psalm 104:24 There are 5,000 known species of sponges on the ocean floor. Five thousand. There are 300,000 species of beetles. There is a similarly...
by Mike Woodruff | Jul 16, 2021 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday: A gentle answer turns away wrath. Solomon, Prov. 15:1 I keep praying that pols, journalists, influencers, celebrities and others with access to a microphone will embrace Solomon’s counsel. In the meantime, I’m suggesting you give it a try. I do this not...
by Mike Woodruff | Jul 9, 2021 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday: Consider others more important than yourselves. The Apostle Paul, Phil. 2:3 The pluralism, fracture and acceleration of this moment makes life confusing. Thankfully, some things are simple. We must love and serve others, especially the poor. To be...
by Mike Woodruff | Jul 2, 2021 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday Love your enemies. Jesus, Sermon on the Mount Loving people is hard. Loving unlovable people is harder. Loving our enemies is harder still. But it is what we are called to do. As I have noted before, this does not mean we are to work to turn our enemies...
by Mike Woodruff | Jun 25, 2021 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday, I am the vine, you are the branches. Jesus, John 15 We make it harder than necessary. Consider the work of a branch – it effortlessly grows out of the vine and passes along nourishment to the fruit. In our effort to “bear fruit,” we often cut ourselves...