You may have heard the phrases, “Eat, drink, and be merry” or “Life’s short, eat dessert first” or “Life stinks then you die.” All of those buy into modern ideas that human beings are no different than leaves on the forest floor. We have a season of life, living for today, and then we return […]
Continuing my thinking about What It Means to Be Resurrected and a sovereign God as a final authority, I was remembering a time in seminary when one of my professors talked about being in college and his roommate asked, “Hey Dude, do you think God could create a rock so big He couldn’t lift it? […]
Death stinks. I’ve been thinking a lot about death lately. So when Facebook reminds Seminary Gal “It’s been a while since your readers have heard from you,” I wonder if you’d all think “Just as well” so long as this is where my mind is. My mind has been pondering death in part because our […]
When we left off with the Apostle Paul’s legal case for the Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15, he drew the inevitable conclusions from the false assertion of the Corinthian Resurrection-denyers. Paul logically concluded that if Jesus was not raised from the dead, all who proclaim that He was are not only being deceived and deceivers, […]
In every generation, there is a hunger to know fact from fiction … an intrinsic need to have something reliable-rock solid-on which to take a stand. Something … somewhere … worth believing in. Something worth dying for. Today, the Apostle Paul demonstrates that his hands may have been a tentmaker’s but his heart belonged to […]
Here you go: How to edge your bed better than a pro in 10 easy steps. “Pretty arrogant,” you might say! Q: What makes you think you do it better than a pro? A: Because I hate edging and I don’t want to do it more than once a season. Pros don’t mind coming back every […]
Time for a few gardening posts (yes, birding is an extension of gardening). This has been on my mind for a while now. Given that we’re 16 degrees below normal temperature-wise and the steady rain has made the soil unworkable, I don’t want to be in the yard. Writing about it is almost as good. […]
Do you know the powerful working of God’s grace in your life? Paul did. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. […]
“I AM WHO I AM.” God’s famous words to Moses, revealing God’s own Name in Exodus 3:11-14. His Name alone conveys truth and authenticity! Just think about it! As followers of Jesus Christ, we should aim to reflect the same kind of truth and authenticity. To echo the Apostle Paul’s words “But by the grace of God I […]
