People are Watching
on the throne of my lord the king after him.
If you do not act, my son Solomon and I will be treated as criminals
as soon as my lord the king has died.”
~1 KINGS 1:20 (HSCB), 21 (NLT)
Does it bother you, that in this information age, everyone seems to be gathering mountains of data on everything you do? If you’re shopping for shoes online, next thing you know your computer says, “If you like that, then you may be interested in this.” Google, Amazon, Facebook¸and other online sources are busy tracking everything you say, like and do online. I found this just now online: “Information about you, what you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital economy.” It seems the eyes of the whole world are on you. Read more…
Times & Seasons
and time for every matter under heaven.
-ECCLESIASTES 3:15 (ESV)
Courage to Be Different
a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you
out of darkness, into His wonderful light.”
-1 Peter 2:9 (NIV)
IF YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED, nearly every aspect of our calendars is ordered around the rhythm of the school year. We even program much of our church calendar with sensitivity to what happens on our school campuses. Big yellow people movers, we call “school buses” (I used to drive one), keep us constantly alert and aware of the precious cargo they carry. Read more…
Always Prepared
“We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned to us by the One who sent us.
The night is coming, and then no one can work.”
BEING CAUGHT UNPREPARED is a most uncomfortable and embarrassing situation and can be quite costly, or even deadly, depending on the nature of that situation. Yet knowing this, we still often find ourselves unprepared for many of the curve balls life throws at us. Read more…
Courage to Stand
Shiphrah and Puah, “When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and
observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her
live.” The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king
of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
-Exodus 1:15-17
Thanks, I Needed That
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another,
and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
-Hebrews 10:24-25
LIFE IS SOMETIMES HARD. Storms and challenges seem to rise out of nowhere. Sometimes the rains are gentle and sometimes the skies open wide and pour out torrents, much like the rains we experienced in town just this past week—at least over my house.