“You have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.” (Esther 4:14) The biggest lie I tell myself is: “I don’t need to write that down. I’ll remember it.” When I was young, I used to bore my doctor. To be fair, I’m not entirely sure I even had one. As I’ve aged, …
“Establish the work of our hands…”
Allow me one final word on Moses’ one and only Psalm (90). It’s all about our aging and dying versus God’s eternal agelessness. While our beauty wanes, his retains and maybe even increases in glory. Moses seems to have written the poem just before he hiked up Nebo and died, a ripe 120 years old. …
Accidental Evangelism
Our flight plan and the Spirit’s are typically dissimilar. Problem is, changing course from our plan in order to get on course with his plan isn’t always as easy as it sounds. Inconveniences aside, what could be more important than being in the right place at the right time for a divinely scheduled appointment, especially …
Accidental Evangelism
The story of Rahab’s rescue from the destruction of Jericho has been the basis for our discussion of how God prepares people for hearing the good news by installing a supernatural wonder in their hearts. Let’s turn our attention now to the “witnesses” commissioned to share that news with her. I’m not saying that Joshua’s …
Inadequate Samaritans
In two earlier posts I introduced the concept and context of the parable of the Good Samaritan. I talked about to be like Jesus is to be like the kind of “Ideal Samaritan” he was. Let me take this a little further and identify, like the law expert with whom he shared his parable, we …
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