Beauty for Ashes

We helped a friend of ours move this past weekend from a small apartment into a house with his new wife.  It marked the end of a 15 month period that started when he moved into that apartment after his wife left and divorced him.  During that time he transitioned from confusion and hurt to [...]

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Storms and Growth

I forget that storms can bring unexpected growth.  I ran across this article from a NASA site from a few years back that reported how hurricanes had brought new growth to marine plant life in areas of the ocean that had been previously considered desert areas.  The article states:
“Some parts of the ocean are like [...]

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Gain and Loss

If I want something bad enough I’ll pursue it.  I always seem willing to rearrange my schedule to play basketball or go for a run. For each goal I have there is a gain and there is something lost.  It’s a pretty simple principle.  Getting up at 5:30am to play basketball is going to cost me [...]

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Going Hard after Christ

The apostle Paul understood well the proper perspective for handling both failures and success in his goal of the passionate pursuit of the knowledge of Christ.  In his letter to the Philippians he wrote: “Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies [...]

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Ordinary Vessel

Sometimes the most ordinary looking people can surprise you with the ability to do the most extraordinary types of things.  Paul Potts is just such a man.  There’s a video of him on YouTube that is worth checking out.  He’s a cell-phone salesman who appeared on Britain’s equivalent of American Idol and astonished everyone with his [...]

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The Reflective Life

I’ve just finished reading “A Mind for God” by James Emery White.  It’s a great book about how to develop a Christian mind in the culture we live in and whether or not Christians have failed in the task to develop our minds or whether we’ve allowed our minds to be captured by our culture.  [...]

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Illustrations and Credibility

I love it when illustrations are used to help explain a point that someone is trying to make.  I enjoy sermons that present a well though out argument from scripture where an illustration is used to present the main point in a tangible way that I can seem to grasp.  A good illustration seems to make the point come alive to me.
My wife (Rhonda) and [...]

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Support from an Atheist

I have to be up front and admit that I’ve never been a fan of Joel Osteen as a teacher.  I know he has a huge following but a huge following doesn’t prove that he’s a sound teacher regarding the truth.  Although it does mean that people find his message and/or his style attractive. 
I’m not fond of him [...]

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