Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
Gain And Loss
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure...
On Love /2
An affirming paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, and the template for an Awesome marriage: Love is patient.Love is kind.Love is secure and contented, not envious or jealous.Love is humble and not proud or conceited.Love is courteous and not rude.Love is generous and...
On Love
Three things will last forever - faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. Love is patient...
This Is The Day The Lord Hath Made
And evening passed and morning came, marking a new day. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1 Shabbat Shalom
So Many Questions, So Little Time
Is it your honest heart's desire to be more like Jesus? Or are you pursuing something else? If you were charged with the crime of being a follower of Jesus Christ, would there be enough evidence to convict you? If someone was to spend a day with you, and then...
New Beginings
Every new beginning comes from the end of some other beginning.
Lest We Forget
Bumper Sticker Of The Day: Jesus died for your soul. Soldiers died for your freedom. Veteran's Day is so much more than can be expressed in a pithy bumper sticker. A bumper sticker can, however, stir our hearts to reflect on the incredible sacrifices paid by our...
Slippery When Wet
I advise you to obey only the Holy Spirit’s instructions. He will tell you where to go and what to do, and then you won’t always be doing the wrong things your evil nature wants you to. Galatians 5:16 TLB He who would not fall down should not walk in slippery...
From Genesis To Revelation
The Bible, the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God, is not a book about principles to live by. The Bible is a love story about a person to live for; Jesus, the red thread throughout the love story. I read God's word not because I need to in order to stay in...
Worldview: Forms Of Justice
Four points of order: You don't have to believe in the Resurrection to realize that the Bible is the Operators Manual for humanity.Presently, there are two contending models of justice, Biblical Justice and Social Justice. Biblical Justice is one-another love and the...
The Creed Of The Fellowship Of The Unashamed
The source of the Creed Of The Fellowship Of The Unashamed is uncertain, variously attributed to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) at a 1966 retreat in Black Mountain, NC, or to an African man who was forced by his tribe in 1980 (or 100 years ago) to renounce...
Science Versus God
A thousand years from now when scientists have solved all the questions that plague humanity, they are finally ready for the ultimate challenge. They elect a representative to address God. “God,” says the scientist in charge. “You are no longer needed. You served a...
This Is The Day The Lord Has Made
Work as unto the Lord;…. so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Colossians 3:23, 1 Peter 4:11
Saying Grace
"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace...
Verily
Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matthew 25:40 KJV #befruitful
Be Still
God: Be still, and know that I am God. Pascal: All human evil comes from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Life is a process of elimination by which you slowly learn how to not do a bunch of really stupid things. Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. #wisdom
The Symphony Of Corporate Worship
When you enter into church on Sabbath, the issue is what you contribute to the symphony for God. Paraphrase, Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 Or, if you prefer: Walk prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather than to give the sacrifice of fools, for...
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