The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,100 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get […]
Bartimaeus embodies what Jesus has been teaching us leading up to this moment. Sitting outside the walls of Jericho, a city that signifies sin in the Hebrew Scriptures, he cries out for pity like a small child, he perseveres in his request even in the face of the rebukes from the disciples, he throws […]
“I carry the Bible around with me all the time. I heard somewhere that when football players fumble the ball a lot during practice or games, the coach makes them carry a football around with them all day long. I fumbled this one badly,” he said looking down at the dog-eared paperback bible under his […]
At that statement his face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions. – Mark 10:22 When we find out that we are almost all the way to achieving what we are looking for, what could make us turn and walk away from it? That the final step to achieve what […]
“‘…in prison and you visited me.’” – Matthew 25:36 “Do the bad people try to hurt you?” she asked, half hugging, half hiding behind her fathers leg. It is a seemingly natural and innocent enough question, reflecting some of my own initial fears of going into the jail to minister, and one I had been […]
‘”This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.’” – Mark 7: 6b, 7 Rules are important, but they are a means to and end, not the end itself; we need rules because of our sinful nature, to […]
“It is the Spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail.” – John 6:63 Truth has a funny way of being there no matter what we want to do with it. It becomes a force we cannot ignore if we are truly looking to find it and follow it, but with […]
