When my daughter was young, she watched the Disney cartoon version of Alice in Wonderland over and over again. One part that I had memorized at one point was when Alice is introduced to the Cheshire Cat. Alice: “I just wanted to ask which way I ought to go.” Cheshire…
2020 has been quite the year, no? And still, don’t we all have something to be thankful for? I am certainly thankful for still being around and being able to contribute something back to the society and world I am in (although, don’t necessarily belong to it, Jn 15:19; Jn…
Looks are not everything. A beautiful young woman walks in a bar with her boyfriend and says to him, “You sure are lucky to be with me. I am a Maserati in a world of Kia’s.” Bemused the man replies, “What? You mean overpriced, unreliable and will lose half of…
God doesn’t call the equipped, son. God equips the called. ~Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave You know, I get a chuckle when I get a comment like, “You seem so sure of yourself”, or even “You are full of yourself”. Seems to me that I am in good company: 13 Now…
13 Look, my eye has seen it all; my ear has heard and understood it.2 Just as you know, I also know; I’m not inferior to you.3 But I want to speak to the Almighty; I would gladly present my case to God. … 18 Look, I have laid out my case; I know that I’m innocent. ~Job…
Is it a sin if you get thirsty on the Day of Atonement? Is it a sin if you hunger on that day or any other day? If you answered “no” to any of those questions, then why would it have been wrong for Jesus to have turned stones into…
16 For everything that belongs to[a] the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world. ~1Jn 2:16 (HCSB) John writes that there are three basic categories of temptation. Each of these was used in the initial temptation of…
We live in interesting times. I remember the shock that some had in 2016 when they realized that there is such a thing as an Electoral College. It really shows me how postmodern education has let down society. We are in an age of ignorance and decay, and heading towards…
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[a] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” ~Ge 3:1 (ESV) The story of how the serpent deceived Eve can seem pretty straight-forward, can’t…
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. ~Heb 4:15 (NIV) OK, I know I was going to do a four-part series on the…