The end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it is a concept we’ve probably known since Noah survived the Flood. Having witnessed the end of the world as he knew it, it wouldn’t surprise him to see it happen again. After all, it’s easier to believe something so horrible happening a second time than to imagine it ever happening for the first […]
Have you ever bought canned Lite fruit at the grocery store? Sometimes, it’s real fruit packaged with fruit juices and no added sugar. Sometimes it’s real fruit packaged with an artificial sweetener. It’s pretending to be healthful when really, it’s not the real thing. The Christian life can be the same way. Real fruit and […]
Matthew 21:1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone […]
Throughout this 2017 Lenten devotional series, Light: There’s Nothing Like It, we’ve seen that light is an amazing creation and a very apt metaphor for everything from witnessing to righteousness, from the hope of the Gospel to the assurance of salvation, and from the Christian community’s relationship to the world to that same dark world’s […]
Do you ever feel like giving up? Just throwing up your hands and saying this whole Christian thing just simply isn’t worth it? Maybe you’re under spiritual attack or even persecution. Maybe you’re just plain tired. In those moments of temptation and feeling under pressure, I remember the journey Jesus embarked on. Pressing on to Jerusalem. […]
Display on the outside what’s on the inside. Consider it like truth in advertising. No one prefers those chocolate bunnies at Easter that you bite its head off and there’s nothing but air inside. We all like something solid, something true, something reliable, and something that communicates on the outside what is truly on the […]
You may have heard the quote “We have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.” * * * Jesus came for more than that. He came as the reason, for a season on earth, so that we could see God during Jesus’ lifetime, […]
Most people know John 3:16 exists if only from end zone placards. The rest of this passage where Nicodemus comes to Jesus in the dark of night presents a clear case and a verdict. If it were filmed, I’d picture it as film noir, but don’t worry, Jesus wouldn’t be chain-smoking with some femme fatale. […]
I hate buying light bulbs these days. I miss the good old days of energy ignorance and the carefree joy of my incandescent 100 watt bulbs that were easy to identify, always made me happy, and were highly affordable. Light is good whether a spotlight or a floodlight. Knowing who belongs in the spotlight and […]
Jeremiah 17:7 “But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. 8 He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year […]
