We begin this story of Jesus encountering the Gerasene demoniac, not when Jesus steps on the shores of the country of the Gerasenes, but in the few verses preceding this incident (cf. Mark 4.39-41). The question still ringing in the air as Jesus steps from the boat is, “Who then is this, that even wind and… [Read more…]
February 7, 2012
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 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…]
February 2, 2012
I once saw a Carnival Cruise lines ad talking about how happy their cruises can make you. Somehow taking a cruise can make a huge difference in our lives. It’s like somehow, they can just shoot us full of happy on their boat with “a fire hose filled with happiness molecules.” That’s the problem. We… [Read more…]
January 12, 2012
Remanufacturing is actually God’s idea. Only the remanufacturing that God does involves souls, minds, hearts, spirits. God remanufactures us human beings. That’s right, God remanufactures us human beings. You see, when we look at our lives in Christ, we may think about sacrificing something to walk that road to Jerusalem with Jesus. We may give… [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 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 16, 2012
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