When I was a kid, I was a “goody two-shoes.” I was the model kid. So was my brother. My parents’ friends would look at them and say, “What are you doing right?” I don’t remember what my mom or dad would reply, but for some reason, my brother and I pretty much stayed between [...]
Straddling
June 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Picture yourself across a deep gorge, just wide enough for you to straddle, with one foot on each side. Suddenly you notice that in miniscule movements that gorge is widening. You feel the pull on your inner thighs. How long can you do this before you have to choose which side you should stand upon? [...]
Love is always the best response
June 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
And it came about that as he journeyed, he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” (Acts 9:3-4) Saul, who would later become Paul, had an encounter with the Lord [...]
More than Words
June 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Lately I have heard horror stories of the way people treat each other in church. Such as the man who didn’t want to share what he thought should be his solo with a teenage girl so he tried to out sing her instead. It was her first chance to sing in front of the congregation [...]
A sudden circumcision
June 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at him. But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened [...]
His beautiful, narrow way
May 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust also in Him, and He will do it. (Psalm 37:5-6) Sometimes in the process of trying to live a life that pleases God, I begin to view Him as someone who wants to [...]
