“Herb, Glenn is missing.” My mother’s phone call induced an immediate tension in my chest. Glenn, my oldest brother by eighteen years, was last seen stepping onto a bus on Crenshaw Boulevard just north of Interstate 10 in Los Angeles and hadn’t been heard from again for days. It was […]
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“Que Sera, Sera. Whatever will be, will be. The future’s not ours to see. Que Sera, Sera. What will be, will be.” A while back, someone shared with me a personal misfortune that had a slightly humorous result. “Oh well, que sera, sera.” I blurted out. Later, I wondered if […]
“Every good work” or “every good deed” is a technical term in the New Testament. The Greek is “pan ergon agathon” and it occurs nine times. Therefore, it’s an important concept for every Christian to understand. Here are those nine New Testament occurrences. “God is able to make all grace […]
“You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions. In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give […]
I’ve lived in two “bad” neighborhoods. I grew up in a rough inner city black neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles. While my family and I, who are white, lived there, our home was set on fire, my sister’s car was stolen out of our garage, my father was robbed and […]
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They were precursors, forerunners, exemplars. Hundreds of years before Jesus Christ invaded our earth and left us his command to love each other as he has loved us, they actually did it. Three Old Testament saints loved someone else the way Christ tells us to. In doing so, they changed […]
This post is a follow up on a recent one entitled, “Are Seminaries the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” I was going to title this one, “Are Pastors the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” But most pastors are already overburdened and stressed […]
I’m sitting in Corner Coffee Shop in Intercourse, Pennsylvania – Amish country – watching traffic go by while I write this post. A constant stream of cars and semis whiz along the narrow, two lane road running through town. Sometimes black buggies pulled by beautiful black or brown horses driven […]
“Helen” had a worried look on her face. “I need you to go to the hospital and talk to someone on behalf of my husband.” Her husband had just broadsided a car and severely injured two young boys in the back seat. Their father, who was driving, became irate and […]