Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but […]
Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say, “I will take revenge; I will pay them back,” says the LORD. Romans 12:19 (NLT) How do two of the world’s richest men settle a dispute? Probable answers include dispatching a legion of lawyers to battle it out […]
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from […]
This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 NLT Spend two hundred dollars and you forget everything? It sounds like you might have been to a therapy session, but in fact, you were at the Taylor Swift Eras concert. Swift fans, better known as Swifties, […]
The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the wilderness. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place. Deut […]
It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with […]
Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. Joel 1:3 His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation. Luke 1:50 Time apparently stands still, especially regarding an overdue library book. Anyway, that was the case at St. Helena, […]
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting…. Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. Acts 2:1-2,41 […]
Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? And who has ever given to God, that he should be repaid? For from him and through him […]
But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:51b-52 (NIV) Can you quantify love? Ed Keefer and his co-creator, John Hawley thought so in 1937 when they developed the “Cupidoscope”. Keefer was a senior in the School of […]