Mr. Rajan Thomas was getting ready to graduate college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father Thomas could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted. As graduation day approached, Rajan...
Do you remember your first kiss? What does a kiss mean to you? Kissing does seem to be a favorite form of showing affection. It also is a form of greeting, as some people welcome each other with a kiss on the cheek. In some countries they greet each other with a kiss...
In our last visit together the evening before Ruth’s death she shared with me a profound truth, which I wish to share with all of you. Before leaving her beside that night, I held her hand and prayed for God’s healing. And as was usually the case, when I...
“After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, "The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices . . .” (Ezra 9:1) How easy it is to jump...
Not everyone called by Jesus to be his disciple chooses to follow him. The account of one who choose not to follow in Luke 18:18-25. The good news sometimes challenges us. On the one hand, we discover that God loves us no matter who we are or what we have done in our...
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” (Matt 7:12) The “golden rule”. We all learned it from childhood, but how many of us really know what it means? As a child, I never really...
"Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future." (Lam 1:9) The story is heart-wrenching: the demise of God's glorious people; the ruin of God's own city, the city of peace; the destruction of God's glorious temple; the desolation of the land...
Without love, who would I be? It does more than cover a multitude of sins. It puts up a mirror. It shows me the self that, in Him I’ve always been.The person whom, without love, I could never believe myself to be… Without His love reminding me, of the beauty he sees...
(inspired by 1. Cor:13) Without love, the words I speak, Though school’d in letters, will be weak: And though I say them loud and long, Without love, I’m but a noisy gong. Without love, the goods I share, Are nothing worth, though costing dear: My gift of life...
Can we capture the love of God As a smile is caught on camera? Can we capture the light of God As a moth is confined in a jam jar? Can we capture the flood of his great mercy, Or rein in the fullness of his grace? No more than we can draw boundary lines around an...