“Thy lovingkindness is better than life.” Psalm 66:3 They didn’t know it, but when Tom Cook and Joseph Feeny promised with a handshake nearly three decades ago that if one of them ever won the Powerball lottery they would split the winnings, they were engaging in a thousands year old […]
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“Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.” Matthew 19:29 A couple of weeks ago, as I was rummaging through some of my father’s […]
I love daily naps and long walks. No, I am not a sloth. I get up around 5 am, often earlier. But while I work hard, naps and walks have been a part of my regular schedule for thirty years. Besides the obvious health benefits, the reasons I have napped […]
“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” John 14:3 One of Satan’s strategies with us Christians is to get us to stop thinking about and longing for heaven. Some […]
The New Testament is full of debates. Some of them are very passionate. In the New Testament you will find debates such as whether circumcision is a requirement for salvation (Acts 15), whether Jesus rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15), how to care for both Jewish and Hellenistic widowed […]
I don’t know about everyone else, but learning to love my neighbors has been a lifelong work in progress for me. It’s been the old two steps forward and one step back. Sometimes it’s even been one step forward and two steps back. If I were to add up all […]
The late Dr. John G. Mitchell, a well known and much loved pastor and Bible teacher in the Pacific Northwest, would tease his students when they couldn’t answer a biblical question during his lectures. He’d lean over his lectern, smile, and ask, “Don’t you read your Bible?” Over the past […]
“One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.” Romans 14:5 The early church had a problem: Jewish Christians had been taught for centuries that worship had to occur on Saturday, the Sabbath. Gentile […]
Talk about role models for boys! How about 50 of them? In Stand-Up Guys: 50 Christian Men Who Changed the World, Kate Etue and Caroline Siegrist give fifty examples of Christian men who, motivated by their faith, made dramatic and often world-wide impacts for good.
The Bible says every man has distinct groups of people around him. It describes who these people are and what our relationships with them should look like when we walk in obedience to Jesus Christ. In this post I will first describe these groups and then I’ll look at two […]