Luke 13: 31-35; Philippians 3: 18-20 Getting our house in order Last we talked about spiritual housecleaning. Today we continue with our house metaphor. While last week we started thinking about the stuff in our garages and the… Read More
Joel 2: 12-16a; Luke 4: 1,2 Spiritual Spring cleaning Dear friends, Let’s talk about Spring cleaning. It’s a little early, but the weather seems to be warming up slightly. Can you think of things you would like… Read More
Matthew 14: 22-33; Luke 9: 28-36 Into the discomfort zone Dear friends, Adrian Rogers tells about the man who bragged that he had cut off the tail of a man-eating lion with his pocket knife. Asked why he… Read More
Jeremiah 1: 4-10; Luke 4: 21-30 I recently read about the “Jerusalem Syndrome” (in the journal “Homiletics). The Jerusalem syndrome refers to the people who come to Jerusalem to dress and act like Jesus or another Biblical character…. Read More
Nehemiah 8: 11, 12; Luke 4: 16-20 There is a line in the movie the Ice Harvest that goes as following:” if you are what you do, but you don’t do anything, who are you?” We have been… Read More
Psalm 36: 9, 10; John 1: 1-5 Of the 800,000 words in the English language. 300,000 are technical terms. The average person knows 10,000 words and uses 5,000 in everyday speech. A journalist knows approximately 15,000 and uses… Read More
Posted: May 2, 2013 by Aart
Easter March 31
Isaiah 65: 17-25; John 20: 1-18 The Resurrection Outlook Are you a glass half full or a glass half empty kind of person? In other words when life is not perfect but also not terrible, which is the… Read More