When Jesus performed miracles, what was He truly trying to reveal to us. Take, for example, two people who bumped into Jesus. Jairus (on behalf of his daughter) and a very sickly woman both “bumped” into Jesus interweaving their miracle […]
What nation has the weakest families? A few years ago I ran into some research that gave me the answer to my question. “The State of Our Unions “, an annual report put out by the National Marriage Project at […]
Anyone who has ever built a house knows how frustrating it can be when sub-contractors fail to keep their word. The entire process is held up because someone does not perform when they promised to perform. What if God had […]
In 1989, Carlo Petrini started a movement known as “Slow Food”. The movement exists to counter the world’s ever-increasing dependence upon fast food. These preservative-laden, mass-produced meals are neither good for us, nor for our environment, argue Petrini and his […]
Psalm 137:1-4 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. 2 There on the poplars we hung our harps, 3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one […]
Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in their 40 years of working together. It began with a small misunderstanding and grew into a major difference. Eventually, […]
Prov. 30:5 “…[God] is a shield to those who take refuge in him. I love the fact that God used the metaphor of a refuge to explain what life is like when you place your presence in the heart of God—instead […]
Some time ago, I posted something about God on Facebook. Within a few minutes a young pastor replied with a rather harsh rejection of my ideas. He was quite dismissive of my supposed wisdom and proceeded to tell me just […]
If you really want to split a church…Don’t debate the core issues like the plan of salvation, the Trinity, the Sabbath, etc. No. If you REALLY want to split a church, REDECORATE! Gather a special committee to wrestle with eternal, […]
Scientists refer to the year 1905 as Albert Einstein’s “annus mirabilis”–his year of miracles. That year, he completed a whole series of important scientific papers, all within a few months of each other, the least of which included his theory […]
