Recently I read the account of a 16-year-old girl, Shannon, driving to school. She apparently thought it more important to put on her make-up than to keep her eyes on that old country road. As she was adjusting the rear-view mirror, she caught sight of some type of movement immediately ...
Read More »The High Calling of Children’s Ministry
The longer I live, the more convinced I am that children’s ministry is where it’s at. And yet, the more I see of the church, the more I feel like we are missing that truth. Like Jesus’s disciples, we’re kind of subtly pushing the children off to the sidelines. Worship, ...
Read More »The Two Witnesses – News Media Patterned After Revelation 11
“Why is the media so slanted? Why is there so much bad stuff on TV?” For decades, people have bemoaned this fact, but scripture describes the devil as “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2). In a very real sense, Satan has power over the airwaves, and ...
Read More »God’s Superior Power: Recovering Aaron’s Rod
I wrote previously that there are two sources of supernatural power. I used the example of Moses and Aaron facing off with the magicians of Egypt in Exodus 7 to demonstrate that both God and the devil can give supernatural power to people. When Aaron threw his rod to the ...
Read More »Think on Good News: Sheikh Asks for A Bible
There’s not much good news out there. When my husband was deployed, we wives had a saying, “No news is good news,” meaning that if we heard nothing from or about our husbands, it was a good thing. Today, it’s tempting to bury my head in the day-to-day, flip the ...
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