Mind Control
I’ve decided not to make this a regular practice for now, but I want to share with you the sermon I delivered yesterday because it is something so crucial to the way we live our lives that I want everyone … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Bible Study
Why Doesn’t God Answer My Prayer?
It’s a question many of us have asked. Maybe it was after we became followers of Jesus. Maybe it was even before that. Some deep desire or some terrible pain drove us to cry out to God. We asked, maybe … Continue reading →
A Life Longing for Love
If I could have only one thing out of life, it would be to know love. There are many reasons why I say that. I don’t know that all of them are good, but I would like to share one … Continue reading →
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
I wrote earlier this month about the recent tempest in a Tall cup surrounding Starbucks’ new plain holiday cups. I won’t reproduce it all here. Suffice it to say the reaction was overblown and unproductive. I hope we’ve put a … Continue reading →
As You Love Yourself
Have you heard someone quote verse 39 of this passage and then say something like, “How can you love your neighbor as yourself if you don’t love yourself?” 35 One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, … Continue reading →
Yahweh
It is the name God gave for Himself (Ex 3.) Translated it means, “I Am.” In that name, He chose the most complete description of Himself that we can comprehend. He is! Everything that is comes from Him. Without Him … Continue reading →
A Curable Disability
I’ve made no secret of my dislike for the term, disability. I use it because I don’t want what I’m saying to get lost behind needless offense, but I’ve long felt that the word, handicapped, is more accurate. The charge … Continue reading →
Childlike Faith
Many of us are familiar with Jesus’ statement that we must enter His kingdom like a child if we are to enter it at all. We describe it as having a childlike faith, but is that what He said? Certainly … Continue reading →
The Free Gift that Costs You Everything
I recently finished reading a book, Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It’s Not Safe to Believe by Tom Doyle. We talk about persecution here and there is a little to talk about, but the people whose stories are in … Continue reading →
Who Do You Think You Are?
I still marvel at how despite all my supposed disqualifications God has brought me into the calling He gave me. I want to share the joy of that with you, and illustrate from the Bible that when God has placed … Continue reading →