Every Good Gift The biggest gift-giving time of year is five months behind us, but there are plenty more opportunities during the year. Consider graduation, birthdays, anniversaries, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and many made-up ones. Whether giver or receiver, we don’t want to miss a chance to have a party. And we often invest a lot of time coming up […]
Enough Is Enough Today’s title is often a statement of frustration when we reach our self-imposed standard of acceptability for the behavior of others and we feel there is little or nothing we can do about it. We might say it to our children when they are fighting among themselves. We could yell it at the TV when the political […]
Qualified In life, there may be many things we’d like to do or be, but we’re not qualified without years of school. And, we don’t have the money, the time or the ability to pursue it. But there is one thing that anybody can qualify for if we meet just one condition. In Colossians 1:9-12, Paul is writing to the […]
Walk Worthy In our vernacular, there are many allusions to walking. There’s the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the bride walks the aisle, people wonder if we’re the real deal, and we “walk the talk” or just pontificate. Then there’s the moon walk perfected by Michael Jackson. And all are interesting in their own way. But the Bible talks about a […]
Ages To Come I’m still in Ephesians this morning, and I had another aha moment. They always surprise me because of the number of times I’ve read the same material. I know many of you reading this know the “salvation” verses from Ephesians 2:8,9. You know, saved by grace, etc. But how many know the preceding verse seven with the […]
Past Tense Looking back to learn from our past can be a good thing, if we don’t stay there. There are things in my past I could wish undone either because of the embarrassment that went with them or the damage I did to the relationships involved. But there is one thing in the past that I was reminded of […]