Bible Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
If you’re a sports enthusiast, you might be able to relate to those closing moments in most timed sports games.
There’s that moment when one team in a soccer game, for example, has a narrow one goal lead and needs to see out the last few minutes of the game.…
Bible reading: John 4: 7-42
The story of the Samaritan woman is quite a well known story to us, but I think in her own day and time, the life of the Samaritan woman was a well known failure.
She was probably the example parents would warn their children about becoming like while they were…
Bible reading: 2 Kings 6:8-18
I watch with utmost disdain many times as my little children find totally surprising uses of various items around the house. Better put, various destructive uses! How on earth do you think this is what that item was made for?!
Please notice that wrong judgment flows from a limitation or…
Bible Reading: John 16:5-15
There aren’t many things that I see leaving people incredibly motivated than challenging their competence at anything. For many people, it’s like a very nasty slap, a totally uncalled for slight that they’ll do anything to prove wrong.
Maybe it’s a human tendency, but we hate to feel like we can’t-…
Bible Reading: Matthew 7:21 - 29
We live in a world that- understandably- bases all its judgments out of what it sees.
People are judged based on what they have, how they look, and so on. Seasons are judged based on the tangibles that we see in them.
But Jesus, in his counter-culture, trademark wise…
Bible Reading: 1 Kings 19:1-14
Do you sometimes think about someone and have some particular expectations of them, to the extent that you feel disappointed when it’s not met? Like you think of some very rich person and expect them to have a good dress sense, and so you feel disappointed when they don’t match…