A Package Deal
Because most people are enticed by the offer of a free gift, that strategy shows up often, starting with retailers trying to engage customers. Yet, God was likely the strategic originator by creating mankind with the ability to procreate. It could be said that babies are His free gifts to…
Read MoreI Did That
Success is revered in our culture. It is even more admirable when individuals have overcome great obstacles and disadvantages to achieve it. Dr. Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon, who ran in the 2016 primaries for US President, makes my short list. He faced multiple hardships associated with his parents’ divorce such…
Read MoreGrace Is Not License
Moses, the leader of God’s people, was not a stranger to opposition, having faced off with Pharoah 10 times before being given permission to take the people out of Egypt. Sadly, opposition continued in the desert with friendly fire from his own brother and sister, Aaron and Miriam, who felt…
Read MoreSleeping Through a Storm
Mark 4:35-41 describes Jesus asleep on a cushion in the stern of a fishing boat when gale winds hit the Sea of Galilee and churned up fearful waves nearly swamping the boat. He was so exhausted from ministering to thousands that neither the violent pitching of the boat nor the…
Read MoreTo Tell the Truth
From 1956 – 1977 there was a popular TV gameshow entitled “To Tell the Truth” that featured a little known individual who had done an interesting or outstanding thing, along with two people posing as that person. A panel of Hollywood stars was tasked with determining which contestant was the…
Read MoreThe Call to Arms
The account of Exodus 13:17-18 describes Pharaoh finally conceding to let the Israelites leave Egypt and includes a couple interesting details. The first is that they did not travel by the shorter route toward the Red Sea, and the second is that they left armed for battle. God addressed the…
Read MoreWe Can’t Know What We Don’t Know
Just when we think we have God figured out, He does the unexpected. This is what happened in the historical account of Abraham and Lot. When Abraham was childless, God made a covenant with Abraham that he would be the father of many nations. One year before Isaac was born,…
Read MoreOne Way or the Other
Most people know the story of Jonah being swallowed by a great fish. While many choose to look at it as an imaginative object lesson to teach obedience and the futility of running from God, in actuality, God has done stranger things than to allow a person to be swallowed…
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