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Slay the hashtag!
The latest hashtag movement: #WeStandWithWDBJ Just like #bringbackourgirls and Kony and whatever else… it will fade away and people will go back to their normal routines and nothing will be done. (NOTE: Kony wasn’t brought down by a hashtag.) Here is how “journalists” can honor the two killed live on TV (and I’m not going to quit using quotes or…
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Jesus’ sermon notes
I read passages like this: The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. (Mark 1:22) and I think, “I sure wish I had those notes! WHAT did he say to get people to respond in this manner?”
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It’s time to leave the circus
The hard move is to choose to cultivate a different life in the midst of the circus.
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Are we MOVED?
40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”41 Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” (Mark 1:40-41) Indignant. Other translations choose “moved with compassion.” Early in Mark’s gospel we see the action of Jesus and…
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Legacy of family and prayer
Godly heritage in families make a huge difference and are a great reward.
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Favorite passages
If there is any passage I could wear out in any physical Bible, it would be (and is, by the way I look in different translations and see I’ve already been there and marked it up incessantly) Ex. 33:13-23. Almost every day I have a prayer: Seek the favor of God. Moses leads the way for me. He constantly longs…
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The shed
I finished mowing the lawn today and as I closed up the shed where I store the lawn mower, I looked at the little bolt at the top of the door. It is designed to keep the double doors flush to the frame. A clasp lock lower down puts the two doors together and that’s where the padlock keeps the…
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Prayers for today
Pray for thirst in the knowledge of Christ today that will not quit.
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You hold the miracle
Give what is in your hands and see what he can accomplish with it.
