Thanks 2016. It’s been real. Time to welcome a New Year 2017. Ring it in with a prayer. Thank You, Lord God, for another year to live for You! To bring people to see the mercy and grace You offer us in Your Son Jesus Christ. Thank You for all the good that happened to […]
2016 was kind of a confusing year. It’s like the confusing message I saw on the sign from Georgia’s I-75 on my way home from a Christmas break with the kids. Message 3. What is that supposed to mean? (Gee, I didn’t bring my super-secret Georgia decoder ring with me on the trip.) * * * I […]
He was shuffling along as I encountered him on my walk. “Good morning! How are you today?” I greeted him. His reply was one word: “Happy.” To be in the final quarter of life and to have that as your reply is indeed a happy thing. It got me feeling a bit envious that one […]
More than just a baby in a manger, here’s what Christmas means: Jesus was born because the world needed Him! Because He came, dust to dust doesn’t need to be our final and only destiny. Because He came, sin’s perpetual curse doesn’t need to be our lot. Because He came, we can be forgiven, once […]
Luke 2:1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to his own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town […]
In A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown seeks out advice from Lucy who is a 5-cent psychiatrist and happens to be “Real In” when he wants to talk about the source of his depression. She says that if he can identify his problem, then he’s part-way to solving it so she lists a bunch of […]
Jesus came to remind us of God’s Government -a government that existed back in Eden before Adam and Eve rebelled against God and ushered sin into this world. God’s Government might be called Walking with God. It is something we will not have again in fullness until Jesus returns. But God’s Government is here and […]
It’s really easy to lose sight of how a tiny baby in a manger could change absolutely everything. Jesus Rocks Our World. Don’t you find it interesting how the world of Christ-haters and Christ-deniers hate Christ’s birth every bit as much as they hate Easter? Easter I can understand, but Christmas? A little baby? Are […]
Even in the organized Church, we can’t get away from fake news. Twisted Scripture has always existed, but it has become part of the order of the day for modern Christians, even the Pope according to Christmas reminds us that Jesus was a migrant like today’s refugees, says Pope Francis (Sorry Pope Francis, I call […]
Isn’t it rich? The people most loudly decrying fake news these days are often the very people who have been telling us for years that there is no absolute truth. It is relative: what’s true for you and what’s true for me can be two different things. Therefore, you must give up your holy roller Christianity […]
