Nothing to See Here (a follow-up to last week’s post) Cover ups. Fake news. Lies. “Nothing to see here” is the common don’t-look-too-deep phrase that is intended to keep us moving. I’m still in Ezekiel and almost had to laugh at how timely God’s prophet’s message to the false prophets of his day is for the false prophets of our […]
Ready Or Not, Here I come O.T. prophet Ezekiel lived about 600 years before Christ. He had the privilege (?) of passing along God’s message of condemnation to the people of Israel. As I read this morning in chapters 6-7 of Ezekiel’s prophecy, I couldn’t help feeling that this message could have just as easily been for today. Listen to […]
Leave God Out…at your own peril As I look back over the past 12 months, several things stand out. But I think the most dramatic is how confidence in our political and scientific leaders has all but evaporated. It’s like the old joke about how you know when a lawyer (politician, scientist, etc.) is lying…his lips are moving. Not so […]
The Last Day(s) Twenty-twenty has finally come to an end. And if that meant a new beginning, I’d be celebrating. Alas, the horizon is dark with foreboding signs not of politics as usual, but politics worse than ever. But I have good news…and bad news. The bad news is man’s heart is “more deceitful than all else and is desperately […]
Today is Christmas We’ve all heard the Christmas story about how God became man in the form of a baby with the sole purpose of dying on the cross to redeem sinful man. Have you ever really considered why? Why would God, who is self-existent and needs nothing, bother creating mankind, knowing how depraved we’d become to the point of […]
Growth, Not Perfection Military slogans abound. “Be all you can be”, “A few good men”, and others. And they are good in their intent. They just miss the mark of eternal significance. Ask yourself, “What is the goal of a slogan?” Isn’t it something to motivate you toward a defined end? There’s nothing wrong, in and of themselves, with slogans. […]