Posts with the tag “generations”

Matt King is drowning and he knows it. His cousin looks at the whole pile of it and calls it what it is: a tough deal. Matt's answer is quiet and honest. "I'm just trying to keep my head above water." Most people know that feeling. But here is what nobody says in those seasons: when you are barely keeping your head above water, you are still making choices. And some of those choices have consequences that reach much further than tomorrow. Moses said it plainly: choose life, so that you and your descendants may live. He was not talking only to the people in front of him. He was talking about every child and grandchild they had not yet had. You are not just surviving this season for yourself. Read the full post.  Read More

In the movie The Intern, a 70-year-old man who had done everything the world told him to do — retire, travel, take up golf — was miserable. So he applied for an internship, walked in with a briefcase and a pocket square, and said: "Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. Well, I still have music in me." That line did not belong in a movie. It belonged in a sermon. Because Psalm 92 says the righteous will still yield fruit in old age. Full of sap. Very green. And God has never once called anyone to retire. Read the full post.  Read More