Posts Tagged ‘obedience’
Linked Arms
Some of the most dramatic rescue video I’ve watched featured strangers linking arms to form a human chain to rescue a person who had fallen over the edge of a cliff. The most inspiring thing was the way a diverse group united at great personal risk to accomplish what one individual alone could not. No…
Read MoreWANTED: Wisdom
In our country’s current climate, there is seemingly no end to opinions and recommendations, but where is wisdom? If the world pandemic is to be resolved through science and a vaccine, then why are cases increasing unabated? Added to that is the attempt to quiet racial tensions with a combination of reparations, new laws, and…
Read MoreStop Sinning
“Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.” (John 5:14) Jesus spoke these words to the invalid He had healed at the Bethesda pool on a later encounter at the Temple, when the man was totally functional. Because we think of Jesus as the Healer, operating in unconditional love, these particular words have always…
Read MoreHigh Stakes
The Ziggy comics featuring the “Complaint Department” are so funny because they are snapshots of real life. In our culture, complaining is so commonplace that were an alarm to sound every time we had a complaint or an attitude of complaining, the noise would be constant. Often it starts with having to get out of…
Read MoreThe Dog Ate It
“One day Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Let’s go over to the other side of the lake.’” Everyone piled into a boat, and while Jesus took a nap, such a violent storm hit them that the disciples were afraid they were going to drown. They woke Jesus up not so much because they expected Him…
Read MoreMary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow?
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? The first line of this old familiar nursery rhyme is probably not something we’ve ever seriously thought about. How do we know Mary was contrary? Was it because she intentionally avoided answering the question how by merely describing what grew where? Could this be a metaphor…
Read MoreGrace for Dinky Faith
God so highly esteemed Abraham as to make him an incredible promise: “I will make you into a great nation and will bless you; I will make your name great and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all the peoples on…
Read MoreThe Welcome Mat
Today’s headlines are extraordinarily alarming in highlighting incident after incident where division, discord, and hatred have prevailed. Unfortunately, the shedding of innocent blood, prejudices against races/peoples, and the greedy pursuit of wealth, fame and power, are age-old human issues that seem to be escalating in our present time. Many have commented that human decency and…
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