‘The unfolding of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.’ Psalm 119:130 (NIV) God’s Word is Him. He reveals Himself to us all through the very scripture He inspired. Just as we see Him in nature, in other people, and in ourselves, His Word speaks to us ...
Read More »The Potential of a Child
We recently said good-bye to our youngest child and only son, leaving him in the Tennessee mountains at a wonderful christian university to begin his college days. With 9 hours distance between us, it felt strange leaving him there. But the change was made easier by his excitement, and the ...
Read More »Deceit of Popularity
Paul knew the secret. He would never be able to do both. He faced the same choice each of us must face, and it went against his natural desire to be liked and appreciated by others. He would have to choose popularity with people, or service to the Lord Jesus. ...
Read More »Finding Truth in News
Questions. We all have them. Reporters ask them. Kids ask them. Jesus welcomed them and used them. But not every question is asked with integrity. Not every question seeks truth. Accusations, perpetrating assumptions, casting aspersions…all can be at the heart of questions. Newscasts blasting out of Ferguson, Missouri seek ...
Read More »Fourth Man
It was the typical Babylonian form of execution. After being bound, the guilty were placed in a brick kiln-type furnace with temperatures over 500 degrees hotter than today’s hottest crematory. Death would be almost instantaneous. Three young Hebrew men were about to experience this form of execution for not bowing ...
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