God has some supernatural advice for you—truths to help you deal with your most formidable personal challenges. Do you know how to get to those truths? Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life. The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law. When I think of … [Read more...]
A Community of Trust (Ephesians 4:25)
Integrity. It’s an important word. It refers to wholeness of character; to that characteristic where what one says lines up with what one does. It refers to the quality of being trustworthy. It describes one whose word is their bond. Yet, sadly, integrity is an increasingly rare thing in our world. We look upon our own political landscape and ask, generally, where is the … [Read more...]
Feeling the Heat
Perhaps you are familiar with the illustration of cultural and ideological osmosis; that is, how it comes to pass that slowly but surely we begin to embrace wrong ideas that otherwise would be easily rejected. I am speaking of the story of the frog and the pan. It is said that, if you place a frog in scalding water, it will immediately jump out. However, if you place the … [Read more...]
Winnie the Pooh and Truth Too
My mind this week has spent some time at the house in Pooh Corner, for a couple of reasons. One is because of a recent news bulletin, and the other is the recent comment by our brother and friend Christo. On Sunday, he taught us the significance of TTFN: “Ta ta, for now.” Please bear with me. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist!) Perhaps some of you have read the report in the news … [Read more...]
Telling the Truth (Acts 13:14-41)
We have a tool shed at home that, over the years, has come to be something of a storage shed for all sorts of junk that really should not be in there. Recently, on my day off, I decided that I would climb into this shed, which my daughters refer to affectionately as my “man cave,” and clean it out. I spend a good few hours sorting through the junk that had come to be collected … [Read more...]