Sunday, March 2, 2025
Who Are You? In my senior year of High School, one of my teachers gave us an interesting assignment. We were instructed to write an essay answering the following questions: Who am I? Why am I here? (What’s my life purpose?) There may have been a few other questions we were to answer, but these […]
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Keep Up With The Upkeep Maintenance. Have you thought about all the time you spend on the basic upkeep of life? Life seems to be a perpetual process of maintaining. Because of the persistent law of entropy, life continually moves from order to disorder, from fixed to broken. We see this in our homes, our […]
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Living In The Here And Now Everyone who’s taken a child on a road trip is familiar with one question, “Are we there yet?” This frequent juvenile inquiry usually results in increasing parental irritation, and ultimately in a frustrated response, “I’ll tell you when we get there!” The “are we there yet” question is actually […]
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Get Smart His television screen name was “Maxwell Smart,” also known as Agent 86. His female sidekick was Agent 99. They comedically portrayed spies working for the government agency “CONTROL” fighting the evil, enemy forces of “KAOS.” The bumbling agent “Smart” employed a variety of unusual espionage devices in his efforts, most famously, a phone […]
Saturday, February 22, 2025
How To Stay Out of the Way “You’re in the way!” It’s a phrase we sometimes hear, occasionally speak, and often think! It describes someone obstructing progress, being where they shouldn’t be, or engaging in activities causing more harm than good. The problem with “being in the way” is, we don’t always (or usually) know […]
Saturday, February 22, 2025
How To Pray “Please pray for me.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard this request from people over the years. I’ve asked the same of others many times. It’s comforting to seek prayer support in times of personal difficulty or need. And praying for others is an important part of our spiritual […]
Saturday, February 22, 2025
God Never Forgets Forgetfulness is part of the human plight. It comes at the most inopportune times. We’re face to face with a person, and their name immediately disappears from our memory. We’re late for an appointment, and can’t find our car keys. We’re taking an important exam, and the information we were so sure […]
Friday, December 28, 2018
| 1:52 min read | Matthew 1:21 “And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” What’s in a name? Most couples preparing for a birth spend a lot of time reviewing and deciding on a name. Naming a child is a […]
Thursday, December 27, 2018
| 1:56 min read | Luke 1:78-79 “Because of God’s tender mercy, the light from heaven is about to break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide us to the path of peace.” John 8:12 “Jesus said to the people, ‘I am […]
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
| 2:02 min read | Matthew 2:10-11 “When they saw the star, they were filled with joy! They entered the house where the child and his mother, Mary, were, and they fell down before him and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” The story […]
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
| 1:58 min read | Luke 1:45 “You are blessed, because you believed that the Lord would do what he said.” After Mary received the angel’s message that she would carry the Christ-child, she soon shared the story with her relative, Elizabeth. Luke 1:45 records a portion of Elizabeth’s response to Mary’s news. Elizabeth was […]
Monday, December 24, 2018
| 2:12 min read | Luke 2:10 “But the angel reassured them. ‘Don’t be afraid!’ he said. ‘I bring you good news of great joy for everyone!’” Luke 2:13-14 “Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God: ‘Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on earth […]
Friday, December 21, 2018
| 1:46 min read | Matthew 2:2 “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We have seen his star as it arose, and we have come to worship him.” Worship is a word we spend little time contemplating. We usually connect it with certain common spiritual activities. For many, worship is attendance at a […]
Thursday, December 20, 2018
| 1:54 min read | Luke 2:7 “She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the village inn.” The innkeeper had nothing to offer except a small stable where the animals bedded. […]
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
| 1:57 min read | Isaiah 9:6-7 “For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. And the government will rest on his shoulders. These will be his royal titles: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. His ever expanding, peaceful government will never end. He will rule forever […]