Author | Vagabond Preacher | Lover of the Poor | Grandpa
These are some of my musings about God’s mysteries. Love to hear some of yours.
HOW GOD GUIDES A heads-up: If you don’t read this first, you might get the wrong idea of what I’m saying about how God guides us... My stories and yours… Along with what I’ve found in the Bible about how God guides, I’m going to share a lot of my own stories. This topic isn’t …
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As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, …
You were probably expecting me to say something like – “I couldn’t drink or smoke cigars!” No, I could’ve done those things if I’d wanted to, but I hate the taste of beer and the smell of cigars. No, I’m talking about stuff I just couldn’t do while pastoring even though I tried with all …
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I was reading Luke 14 this morning and realized that three times in a very short space Jesus specified what would keep a person from being a disciple. He said, “cannot be my disciple”… “cannot be my disciple”… “cannot be my disciple”… I’m not sure of the particular sense of this. Is he saying that …
One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. 2 There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. 3 Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” 4 But they …
