Our journey on the Way of Holiness during Lent began with preparation and continues with considering ways of being set apart as followers of Jesus Christ. In today’s passage, 1 Peter 1:13-2:3, we see a focus on what it means to grow into the faith—to be set apart as spiritually mature people. None of us […]
Toby Keith recorded a song written by Bobby Braddock called I Wanna Talk About Me. We can all laugh at lyrics like: We talk about your work how your boss is a jerk We talk about your church and your head when it hurts We talk about the troubles you’ve been having with your brother […]
Albert Einstein has been credited with saying some really great quotes. A couple of his best summarize today’s passage, Hebrews 10:1-18. Let’s contrast Einstein with the author of the New Testament Book of Hebrews. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Einstein) The law is only a […]
I recently had a bad week as a do-gooder. I was driving to yet another event to “do-good” and at the stoplight I began to have an attitude problem (more like an attitude meltdown). I wanted to throw in the towel. It was Friday and I’d spent the entire week accomplishing things on everyone’s to-do list […]
You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings– what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them” (2 Timothy 3:10-11). I know a little bit about a lot. […]
