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Nov 2017
Sometimes the smallest act of kindness (which is, of course, one of the fruits of the Spirit working in us), can have a profound and lasting impact upon others. In Serving, the Biggest Honor in Life, Milt Culver retells a story written by pediatrician David Cerqueira. David’s wife was a Sunday school teacher at Church and she’d prepared a lesson on being useful. He writes: “She taught the children that everyone can be useful, that usefulness is serving God and that doing so is worthy of honor. The kids quietly soaked up......
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November 28, 2017
What Have You Been Preaching Lately?
Yesterday’s blog considered the leper that Jesus healed with a word and with a touch. As I mentioned, touching lepers was just not done. It was unhealthy, risky, socially unacceptable. But Jesus chose that path...
November 27, 2017
Just A Touch
The verse is striking in its simplicity: “Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him” (Matthew 8:3). We touch lots of things as we move through life without ever thinking much about it. But this...
November 19, 2017
Thanksgiving Eye Trouble
‘No, seriously, weren’t there ten?’ The story’s pretty well known. Jesus is traveling and preaching and healing. And in Luke 17:11-19 we find this thought-provoking incident. On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between...
November 17, 2017
The Very Best Reason To Die
John 12:20-26: “Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So, these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see...
November 16, 2017
Out of the Water to the Newness of Life
The image of coming out of death into life is the unavoidable core message of the Christian faith. It’s illustrated by biblical contrasts like the darkness and the light, the old and the new, the...
November 14, 2017
Glorifying God in Your Body
“Following” Jesus is synonymous with “obeying” Jesus. To follow is to obey, and obeying involves a long series of decisions that I make to glorify God by laying my life, my preferences, and my desires...
November 13, 2017
Finding Life on the Other Side of the Cross
It sounds like a paradox. It’s one of the most difficult verses in the New Testament to wrap our minds around. It’s disarmingly simple, yet deeper than the deepest ocean. “Whoever wants to save his...
November 10, 2017
Feeling Unseemly, Uncomely, Unpresentable?
All of us have inadequacies. Many of us have insecurities. Perhaps you feel like you’re unimportant to the Kingdom of God, that there’s little you can do that will matter for God. Perhaps you feel...
November 09, 2017
Wasted Talents
So, Jesus tells a story. It’s a story about a “man” who’s going away for a time, but is coming back. He calls His servants and entrusts to them...