Remember the Titanic and the ‘tip of the iceberg’? You never know what lurks beneath and so it is with life. Things are RARELY what they seem and our faith if no different. We can talk a good game all day long, but when the rubber meets the road where ...
Read More »“Sweet” Revenge?
“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) Revenge can be a temptation, a natural desire in the face of a threat or a hurtful act on the part of another. It can certainly seem deserved when an injustice is done. But ...
Read More »Be Careful Little Mouth What You Say…
Dr. Seuss inspired wedding vows with a lighter side to traditional words promised at the altar. In part, they state the following: Will you love through good and bad? Whether you’re happy or sad? Will you love each other if you’re rich? Or if you’re poor, and in a ditch? ...
Read More »Blindfolds and Tightropes: Walking By Faith
For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV) Nik Wallenda knows what it feels like to walk a tightrope 1500 feet above solid ground. He’s felt the 45 mph winds that threaten his balance, and the birds that fly in for a closer look. This seventh-generation ...
Read More »The Same Love: John and Job
Two men, each with a book of the bible named for him, one was “the disciple whom Jesus loved,” one of the inner three. The other was, in God’s own words, “blameless, and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” John was a typical, hard-working fisherman at the ...
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