We’re an impatient lot sometimes. We want faster internet. Microwaved food. Same-day delivery. Minutes. Seconds. Nanoseconds. That’s why one of my favorite characters in the “Christmas Story” is Simeon. Kind. Older. Steady. Devout. A fixture in the temple. And the Bible says he was patient. And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man…
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He Is For You!
I am for my boys! I’m for them succeeding in life, whether it be in their grades, their friendships, or their sports. In fact, I’m a fantastic cheerleader, if I do say so myself! I can’t help it! I’m a yeller…a screamer…a YEAHHH-er! Sometimes I tell Tom I’m going to try being quiet at a game and he just nods. What…
In Christ’s Eyes We Are Scratch!
I never used to care about squashed-dead possums on the road. Sometimes I would think “Ick” or “Ohhh, I hope the car clears it,” but most of the time the squashed-dead possum didn’t even register. I drove right on by. But that was before Scratch. Scratch, the baby possum Jake rescued from it’s squashed-dead mom. The baby possum we fed…
Our Forever Friend
Forever friends. We all have one. Perhaps a few. This coming fall my wife and I will meet four other couples along the Oregon coast. We worked, worshipped and began our families together in a distant city. We have not all been together in nearly 24 years. Here and there in Dallas, Dayton, Atlanta, Branson and Los Angeles our individual…
The Wonderfully Simple Gospel
In Matthew chapter 23 Jesus takes on the religious hucksters of His day. They were packaging their religion in a bundle of rules and loading people down like so many pack animals. (See The Message by Peterson) Jesus met their false religion by inviting people to take His easy yoke and enjoy His peace. He summarized true religion as feeding…