23 Oct 2018 0 Comment

First Responders…Worship

It is doubtful anyone has had a terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, quite like Job. (Apologies to Alexander.) In one day, Job lost his oxen, donkeys, sheep, camels, servants, and all his children. No one could have blamed Job had he...
9 Aug 2018 0 Comment

Deer in Headlights

Ever wonder where the expression “deer in headlights” comes from? It comes from the animal’s bizarre behavior when confronted by the headlights of an oncoming car. The deer will freeze in place and stare straight ahead despite the...
4 Apr 2018 0 Comment

More Than A Dream

Shakespeare’s Hamlet wrestles with the reality of the rise of an evil ruler. Haunted by visions, he feels that he must set things right. “The time is out of joint,” says Hamlet. “O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it...
6 Dec 2017 0 Comment

The Inconvenience of Christmas

The Word became flesh! The Logos—the mind and thought of God—became mortal flesh. “Incarnation” is the theological term; in regular terms it means that God was spelling Himself out in language that we could understand....
19 Oct 2017 0 Comment

Free Indeed

Chuck Swindoll writes about a bazaar that was held in a village in northern India. One old farmer brought in a whole covey of quail to sell. He had tied a string around one leg of each bird. The other ends of all the strings were tied to a...
19 Oct 2017 0 Comment

What Wondrous Love is This!

I remember when my grandson, Jayden was born. I loved him with all my heart. I looked forward to the day he would learn to talk and call me by name—and when that day came, I was thrilled beyond measure, but I didn’t love him any more...
30 Sep 2017 0 Comment

Fear or Faith?

Is fear a denial of faith? If we’re scared or apprehensive about a career move, returning to school, a relationship, refusing to work on the Sabbath, returning a faithful tithe, etc., does that dry mouth and upset stomach indicate that...
27 Aug 2017 0 Comment

He Knows The Future

In Jesus’ famous “sermon on the mount,” the Master said, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged,…” (Matt. 7:1, 2). A friend from out-of-state had recently divorced and...
31 Oct 2016 0 Comment

What the World Needs Now

Some of my childhood memories revolve around the music I grew up listening to. We all have a soundtrack of our lives that echo the times in which we live. I grew up in L.A. during the sixties—a tumultuous decade of war, riots,...
27 Oct 2016 0 Comment

Flood Assurance

The images coming out of Houston and other Texas towns ravaged by Hurricane Harvey are heartbreaking. The coastal cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur got pummeled with 26 inches of rain in 24 hours -- and it's still raining. Flood waters...