Yesterday, we heard about the Israelites not being able to serve God,they just couldn’t make the right choices. We also asked ourselves if we made all the right choices in our relationship with God. Do we think about showing up for God like we should? Well, what if we were really in need, and one… [Read more…]
February 6, 2012
Israel had an interesting go there in Exodus. From the palace to the plagues, from the first Passover to the Red Sea passage, Israel had its way made by the Lord. They weren’t even five (5) minutes out of the Red Sea when they had formed the “Back-to-Egypt Committee.” They whined for water – they got… [Read more…]
February 4, 2012
My wife jokingly tells folks to pick their child’s sport by the bathrooms at the facilities. Of course, she grew playing tennis, as did I, and the bathrooms (if they had them), were mostly nice. The rub comes in our daughter’s chosen sport: softball. The bathrooms sometimes left us, well, wanting. And, I suppose, we’re older… [Read more…]
January 27, 2012
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a movie about a man who becomes obsessed with an alien encounter. He cannot help himself, he must discover what’s happening. He builds a mud model of the landmark that keeps flashing in his head, he leaves for Wyoming trying to find this large piece of rock, and he… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
It’s interesting to me that the folks always seem meet at the well in Genesis. Certainly it’s a life-giving place, so it has powerful symbolism in the story that way. Abraham’s servant finds Rebekah at the well; Jacob finds Rachel at the well. It’s very romantic and well-timed: the right people at the right place. Great… [Read more…]
January 10, 2012
“To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God’s interests in other people. ‘That ye loved one another; as I have loved you….’ The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you from within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life,… [Read more…]
January 10, 2012
I once read a story about how Sadhu Sundar Singh and a companion were traveling through a pass high in the Himalayan Mountains. At one point they came across a body lying in the snow. Sundar Singh wished to stop and help the unfortunate man, but his companion refused, saying, “We shall lose our lives… [Read more…]
January 8, 2012
Several years ago, a friend of mine brought me a book containing the memoirs of Charles Finney, and I really enjoyed it. For those of you who don’t know much about Charles Finney, he was born in the late part of the eighteen century. By the time he was a young man, he had trained as… [Read more…]
December 30, 2011
God does not always do things that make much sense, but then again, he's God.
February 7, 2012
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