Church is Different
1. When one family member gets sick the whole family stays home from worship. But on Monday everyone goes to their proper place: work, school, teaching, etc. 2. When the house payment, car payment or any other payment is due, it is paid even though out of...
Look Ahead, Not Behind
Look Ahead, Not Behind Your past can be a friend or an enemy, a teacher or a tormentor. Memories can make you happy or sad. The apostle Paul had, as we would say, “a past.” But not everything in his life before he became a Christian was evil. Much of it was...
Spiritual Zeal or Ice Cold?
The coldest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was in–you guessed it–Alaska. In 1971 temperatures reached -79.8F at Prospect Creek Camp in Alaska. The lowest temperature in the contiguous 48 states was -69.7 in Montana December 10, 2013. I wonder what the...
A Night Caller
Nicodemus was a Pharisee, a ruler of the Jews, and called on the Lord by night. As he came into the presence of Jesus, he addressed Him as “Rabbi” understood a teacher with authority, continuing: “we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these...