Matthew 22:23-24 Everyone knows how difficult it is to associate with people who rely on faulty assumptions and prejudices. Jesus once said to the Pharisees, "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices, but you have...
"And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow; and as he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the birds came and devoured them: and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth: and straightway...
Last Friday I was meeting with two of my colleagues after work. They had had a tough day with seemingly little support from management, and they felt discouraged. As I was listening to what they went through, I also became upset at management. Why couldn't these...
This is the 8th and final lesson from the short series focusing on what Israel's earliest leaders, the judges, have to teach us. Today's leadership lesson is the second from one of Israel's more well-known judges, Samson . . .If anything could be said of Samson's...
Matthew 7:1: "Judge not, that ye may not be judged." Darby Bible This is probably the most well known of all the verses in the Bible. Whenever someone points out a sin that someone is doing, you hear this verse as a response. What does this verse really say? The Greek...
My boys just left for church, two hours early, and they were at church until after 10:00 last night. The reason? They were practicing for this morning's worship service. I am delighted. Not by the extra practice necessarily, but simply by the fact that their youth...
Once upon a time, a fellow (we'll call Mike) took his young daughter, son, two nephews and a niece to a place high on a mountain. Its treeless top was covered with green grass, and they could see surrounding mountains for many a mile. Suddenly Mike spread his arms,...
In the last two lessons from What a Prostitute can Teach us, we saw the importance keeping our promises, of standing up for what is right, and of letting our actions proclaim what we truly believe. There is one last lesson we can learn from this famous woman, and this...
There were six of them. Beautiful, powerful, gentle. I couldn't keep myself from sliding off the gravel road I had been running down to get a closer look. Just this summer I had decided to fulfill a lifelong dream and learn to ride. My decision had resulted in me...
"But the LORD said to Samuel, 'Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.'" (1 Sam 16:7 NIV) Things are never...