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| Feb 01, 2021
I HAVE JUST TAKEN MY Webster’s Dictionary off the shelf and looked up thorough. It means, “carried through to completion, careful about detail, complete in all respects.”
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| Jan 31, 2021
“WHAT DO YOU WANT TO be when you grow up?”
The answers we receive are all over the map. One youngster recently told me he wanted to be either a car mechanic or a garbage collector.
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| Jan 30, 2021
IS IT POSSIBLE TO THINK SO much like Christ that our minds operate on a different plane than those of others around us? Not only is it possible—it’s essential!
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| Jan 29, 2021
DO YOU REALIZE THE POWER OF humanistic reasoning to block the power of Scripture? Let me be specific.
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| Jan 28, 2021
WHEN COMPARING THE ACTS OF forgiving and forgetting, I believe forgetting is the tougher assignment.
Why? Because forgetting is something that is shared with no other person.
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| Jan 27, 2021
In comparison to Jesus Christ and all the things He has made possible—His forgiveness, His love, His righteousness—everything else we may be or accomplish diminishes in significance.
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| Jan 26, 2021
COULD WE REVISIT those words Paul wrote?
“I have not achieved it . . . forgetting the past . . . looking forward to what lies ahead.”
Paul's openness is best described with one word: vulnerability.
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| Jan 25, 2021
THOSE WHO REFUSE to get bogged down in and anchored to the past are those who pursue the objectives of the future. People who do this are never petty.
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| Jan 24, 2021
TRUTH BE TOLD, it’s God’s forgiveness of us that makes it possible for us to forgive others.
Jesus Christ paid in full the penalty for our sin.
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| Jan 23, 2021
LATE ONE SPRING AARON, a seminary student, was asking God for a position at a church or at a Christian organization. When nothing happened, Aaron took a job driving a bus in a dangerous section of Chicago.
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| Jan 22, 2021
A FULL YEAR BEFORE THE apostle Paul wrote to people who comprised the Corinthian church, they had begun a project. No doubt they got started with a burst of enthusiasm, the thrill of a fresh beginning.
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| Jan 21, 2021
I'LL NEVER FORGET SOMETHING I heard on the radio several years ago. A woman in West Palm Beach, Florida, died alone at the age of seventy-one. The coroner's report was tragic. "Cause of death: malnutrition."
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| Jan 20, 2021
Following Christ as His disciple is a costly, unselfish decision. It calls for a radical examination of our self-centered life. Whew! That's one of those easy things to say but awfully tough to carry out.
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| Jan 19, 2021
QUITE A WHILE AGO, a young man expressed an interest in living in our home and being discipled in the context of our family.
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| Jan 18, 2021
THE CHRISTIANS IN THE Macedonian churches were servants who gave without any concern about receiving the credit for their generosity. But Paul reveals something else remarkable about the nature of their gift:
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| Jan 17, 2021
WHEN THE APOSTLE PAUL MADE his way through Europe, specifically the region of ancient Macedonia, he shared with those believers the financial need of the Jerusalem church.
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| Jan 16, 2021
PART OF HUMILITY IS HAVING a preset mentality that determines thoughts like this:
"I care about those around me."
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| Jan 15, 2021
I LIKE THE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK definition of philosophers one of my seminary professors would occasionally use. It's classic: "Philosophers are people who talk about something they don't understand and then make you think it's your fault!"
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| Jan 14, 2021
I REMEMBER READING OF Leonard Bernstein, the late, legendary conductor of the New York Philharmonic, giving an insightful answer in an informal interview.
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| Jan 13, 2021
TO FULLY UNDERSTAND the battle against "self" we must go back, way back, to that ancient scene pictured for us in the second and third chapters of Genesis: the Garden of Eden.
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