Posted by: admin in: ● December 10, 2010
Pull up a chair The disciples asked Jesus, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” MATTHEW 17:10 Certain seats are reserved just for you. It could be a ladderback chair in your parents’ kitchen, the beanbag n front of the TV, a stool at the sports bar, or the leather executive seat [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● December 9, 2010
Games Children Play “We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.” MATTHEW 11:17 I remember a sidewalk game we used to play called “Mother May I.” One child would lead, inviting us to take a certain number of steps forward. The nature of [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● December 8, 2010
What is the answer to violence? “The Kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent are taking it by force” MATTHEW 11:12B I don’t get violence. From the time I was a kid I’ve known violent people, seen violent acts, observed how violence ends and what it reaps. It doesn’t work. People talk of some [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● December 6, 2010
All or nothing “It is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost” MATTHEW 18:14B Most of us live according to the percentages. If something is 98% fat-free, that’s better than 50%, right? And better still than a product that makes no health claims at all. But none [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● December 5, 2010
360 degrees of WOW Struck with awe, they said, “We have seen incredible things today” LUKE 5:26B Once I flew around the world and stood on the Great Wall of China, It was like walking into the pages of an old school textbook: a bona fide ancient wonder! Gazing across rolling Asian hills crisscrossed with [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● December 4, 2010
Ouch “Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees” MATTHEW 3:10A The shirt is full of holes. The collar’s frayed, the original color is anybody’s guess, and if laundered, it will disintegrate. So why not give it up already? Sometimes parting really is such sweet sorrow that we delay the moment beyond [...]