My daughter and I were talking recently about a swimming experience she had at a church member’s lake this past summer. She told me about how she had been swimming around in the water for a while and decided to put her goggles on and swim underwater. She went on to describe the darkness of […]
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I was recently reading the end of the gospel of Mark. Several verses in chapter fourteen caught my attention. It was telling the story about the last Passover Jesus celebrated with His disciples. He sent a couple of His disciples into the city to find a room for them to use to celebrate the Passover.
One morning several years ago, I was trying to comb and style my daughter’s hair. The bathroom mirror was completely fogged up, and she was unable to see what I was doing. She made a comment about me not being able to see but I assured her that I could see her hair just fine.
I recently shared with my Sunday school class about a childhood memory of picking blackberries with my grandfather. My grandmother could make some delicious desserts and one of those was a homemade blackberry cobbler. One afternoon, my granddaddy asked her if she would make one if he gathered the blackberries. She agreed and I naively
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A Good Thing or a God Thing How do we know the difference? Do you have a hard time saying no to people? Do you feel obligated to do everything that you are asked to do? As “church people”, we often feel pressured to commit to things because we feel like saying yes is the
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God’s Will Is Always Best I have been reading through the Bible in chronological order this year. I recently read through the story of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and his son Manasseh. Their story spreads across multiple passages of Scripture which I have read many times. However, something was said in one of the commentaries
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I enjoy listening to Dr. David Jeremiah preach and I usually find myself listening to him multiple times each week. He recently shared an illustration about a man which caused me to do a little more research on him. The man’s name was Pablo Casals, and he is considered by some to be the greatest
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Walking Through Storms I recently saw a picture on social media of a snow-covered bison. The caption talked about how bison are one of the few animals that walk into a snowstorm. The one who shared the photo said that this was likely because they knew that doing so would get them through it more
Coram Deo Challenge Once while I was preparing a Sunday school lesson, I came across a phrase that to my knowledge, I had never heard before. It was the Latin phrase Coram Deo which means “before the face of God”. This phrase was taken from Psalm 56:13 and is a reminder that we are walking
