Habits aren’t for weak people. Habits aren’t for super-disciplined people. Habits are for everybody. Even God. Jesus made it a habit to spend time with his Father. Can you imagine the divine conversations between God the Father and God the Son during these moments? What needs did Jesus have? What questions did he ask? What did he need help with? …
But the real plot of the series: these guys are just Average Joes – good guys with great hearts, average looks, and some even describing themselves as nerds. In the final episode, Melana chose Jason, a 26-year-old still living with his parents, over the other finalist, Adam, a successful New York businessman and millionaire. Jesus is arriving in our hearts …
Even though it wasn’t a holly, jolly Christmas for Joseph and Mary, by faith they discovered it was much more.
A young girl had just seen Cinderella and was testing her aunt’s knowledge of the story. The aunt, wanting to impress the young girl, said, “Okay, but I know what happens at the end.” “What?” the girl inquired. “Cinderella and the prince live happily ever after.” To which the girl answered knowingly, “No they didn’t, they got married!” Ouch. That …
Who in the Bible would have said the following about God? “His dominion is an eternal dominion; His kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to …
Cautious yet confident. That’s how the weather man predicted the arrival of the winter’s first snow storm. He told it like it would be. Six to ten inches of snow. Take precautions. Get shovels out of storage and snow blowers filled with gas. Be ready for slow travel. But his forecast wasn’t alarming. He wasn’t uncontrollably anxious. Cautious yet confident. …
Christmas, they say, is a season when wishes come true. Ha, we only wish that were true! We could make a long list of wishes unfulfilled. Christians sometimes wish for things, and that’s okay, but we know something better than wishing. We know hope. When you wish, you wish for something, not sure if it might happen. When you hope, …
“Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were” (Mark 9:30). He wasn’t in search of fame. He didn’t need to be great. He didn’t get uptight when he wasn’t popular. For the disciples, though, fame and greatness were significant. One theme of Mark’s gospel is that each time Jesus announces his pending suffering and death, the disciples respond improperly …
Tim Tebow painted “John 3:16” on his eye black for football games. Little did he know what God would do with it.
There was a rookie lumberjack who started out determined to chop down more trees than anyone else. He made it his goal to beat his company’s average tree count of 15 trees a day. On his very first day, he felled 10 trees. He said to himself, “That’s pretty good for my first day.” But on the second day, he …
