Who gets our attention?

It’s a classic tale we’re all familiar with.  Boy meets girl.  Boy shows love in many ways to girl.  Boy and girl fall in love.  Another treats girl badly.  Boy gets angry and seeks to protect girl.  Before long his attention is more on protecting her from her “attackers” than loving and serving her.  Girl

They’re here… now what

We live in a digital age now and one of the number one way “influence” is determined is by how big of an audience you can attract.  When business is involved, that is determined by products sold or ticket sales, but when information is involved… it is calculated by eyeballs (or ear drums I guess).

Maybe it’s a sign…

It’s funny how some people will see a “sign” in just about anything and others can be totally oblivious to what the rest of us would call a “sign”.  You have the Magoo type (like Mr. Magoo cartoons) who are so ‘blind’ that they just miss every single sign even if it’s right in front

What does Holy mean?

The fourth commandment seems simple but it turns out it was one of the favorite commandments the Jews tried to trap Jesus with.  “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” (Exod 20:8)  God even gave a bit of clarity to what it means to keep this day Holy.  “Six days you shall labor, and

The bread of life

The word bread appears in the Bible between 250-400 times (depending on the translation).  The variety of times it is mentioned is significant, but there are a few times where bread is brought up in connection with life itself. The first was in Exodus 16 where God told Moses He would provide manna to His

Going through the motions

If you have children old enough to at least start doing basic chores, you’ll know my feeling exactly.  I have four children from 10-17 (well she’ll be eighteen on Monday but she’s not there yet 🙂  ).  By they time they were three or four, we had them start doing even the most basic of

Do we place tradition to highly?

This statement from the Pharisees could have been mentioned by so many of today’s church leaders.  “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?” (Matt 15:2)  Any of us who have been around ministry for much time, have heard good Christian leaders say something very similar to this statement.  They question the actions

A house divided

The enemy seeks to win through division.  The oldest tactic in existence is to divide your enemy.  The reason it is the oldest is because it started in the Garden of Eden and continued from there.  The serpent sought to divide Eve from God.  “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

I know, it’s a bad and old pun.  But it fit for this story.  You see, the nation of Israel found their start and history near the Nile but were later found in denial.  As generations passed and they faced wars from outside and from within, their view of Gentiles (and non-Jews) grew worse and

Stumbling Blocks

Have you ever tripped over nothing?  Or at least you thought there was nothing there.  In skiing, we called it a land shark.  You’re skiing along and suddenly your ski catches an edge on apparently nothing and you fall.  You weren’t doing anything tricky, nobody cut in front of you… you just fell.  We see