I feel like the proverbial frog in the kettle as I’m reading the Book of Jeremiah. Slowly being boiled to death and yet feeling comfortable and drowsy. All are well, comfortable, healthy, and peaceful, and yet I can’t shake the feeling that it might be because, like Lot, we have made our home Sodom and […]
Luke 5:30-32–And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. When you consider the term “narrow-minded” as a way to describe someone, it is generally […]
My math students (high school) start squirming in their seats 10 minutes into the class. But when I put on a movie, they will sit there for 50 minutes without moving an inch! Imagine staring at the wall for 2 1/2 hours! Wouldn’t that be torture? But if that same wall had sights and sound […]
Luke 5:27-29-After this he (Jesus) went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.29 And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and […]
What stories do you have to tell the next generation that will challenge and encourage them to follow the Lord? Has God done something for you and through you that the next generation would be inspired by? If they followed your footsteps, how satisfied would you be? Psalm 145:4-5 One generation shall commend your works […]
Have you ever raised a moral question over God telling Israelites to wipe out nations, including women and children, when they went into the promised land? I’m reading through Joshua 11 and I’m struck by God’s command to be ruthless toward the people living in the land and kill every one of them! Why such […]
Psalm 11:2-4,7 2 for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart; 3 if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” 4 The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven; his eyes […]
You and I are pleased with what we have…. until we find out someone else got more than us. This never fails to happen. When I give my youngest daughter 5 cookies, she’s very happy. But when I give her sister 6 cookies, immediately the younger one will protest saying that it’s not fair! And […]
Leviticus 9:-6–And Moses said, “This is the thing that the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.” Aaron followed everything Moses showed him for the sake of the glory of God to come before him. Aaron was consumed with the glory of God, so he upheld everything […]
Do you have someone you can’t forgive? Please do, because if you don’t, you are going to hell. Not my words but Jesus’: “So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.” Matthew 18:35 The context is Jesus telling a story of a […]