34And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. 35“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his […]
Month: March 2015
Why I’m Going to Church
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25 In a few […]
Presence Plus
Those of us who are truly blessed have at least one someone who can turn things around by their presence. Rainy becomes sunny. Hopelessness becomes hope. Panic becomes calm. Confusion becomes direction. Perhaps above all else, sorrow becomes joy. They do it by their presence […]
Holy Spirit
16“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides […]
Extremes
I just finished cutting my grass. After all the temperature is in the 70s, why not? I know cutting grass the first days of March, when all that gets mowed are clover and leaves, may make me an extremist in the lawn department but that’s […]
Time Acceleration and Body Degeneration
Remember when you were a kid and Christmas seemed to take ten years to arrive and a school term lasted nine years instead of months and it seemed you had to sit in church all day on Sunday? That was a long time ago. Time […]
Beware Vacations
Last Sunday I took a vacation from church. Well just from my church. We joined family members at another church which they attend. It was nice. Like most vacations it was a refreshing change of scenery. Like most vacations, I was ready to return to […]
Prophets and Kings
Historically prophets were thorns in the side of the establishment. God used them to set the king straight. In Israel, God gave the people a king only because they insisted. In many instances, it was an insistence, they lived to regret. Many of the kings were […]