It can freeze you in your tracks. Or it can make you run like the wind. It makes some babble on and on, while others will not be able to say a word. It can give you that gnawing sensation in the pit of your stomach. Or it can simply feel like a dead weight…
About three weeks ago, I spoke at a funeral for one of our church members. Today I do the same. There’s no doubt that death is real. We see it all around us every day, and with good reason the Apostle Paul called death an “enemy” (1 Corinthians 15:26). But that’s not the topic for…
It was a footrace. The anxious excitement probably lent extra speed to their sandaled feet. Mary Magdalene’s news of the missing body startled them and shook them out of their grief-induced stupor that saw them huddled with the other disciples in a closed room. So Peter and John just had to see for themselves. John…
It has stayed with me like a song that gets stuck in your head. It’s a phrase that has and really should permeate and dominate my thinking. And come to think of it, it is a song, or at least part of a song, that’s stuck in my head – it’s from hymn #23. Mostly…
Brutal. Not usually a pleasant word. Its definition includes words like “cruel,” “violent,” “ruthless,” and “harsh.” Definitely not a character trait you’d want to instill in your children. But having said all that, let me say that there is a time to be brutal. Brutally brutal. In reading for our Men of the Word Bible…
Remember the children’s song, “The B-I-B-L-E”? I was looking through some VBS curriculum for this summer a couple of days ago, and one of the lessons referenced that song. I don’t know how much it’s sung any more in children’s ministries, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to be sure it’s incorporated in the…
Here we go again. It’s started, and you can run, but you can’t hide. It happens about this time every year. You can’t escape it, no matter how much you try. It leaves its yellow tint on everything it touches, and as soon as you wash it off, more comes and takes its place. I’ve…
In doing some recent reading and personal study in the Psalms, I once again considered a powerful passage that always challenges me. It is Asaph’s dilemma in Psalm 73 as he despaired about the prosperity of the wicked compared to the struggle of God’s servants. The writer of this Psalm was ready to throw in…
It’s amazing how the Lord works and weaves things together to speak to us, sometimes from a completely unexpected direction. Here’s a case in point. This past Wednesday night, we looked at a specific topic as we wrapped up our study of God’s prophetic calendar in Scripture with a look at our Heavenly home, the…
It just keeps coming up this week. I can’t get away from it, so I decided to write about it. No, I’m not talking about the extensive media coverage of the new president’s first two weeks in office, although it has been interesting. And it’s not the Super Bowl coverage either, even though the Falcons…