Psalm 95
Several years ago Liz and I had the pleasure of seeing a Cirque du Soleil act in Orlando. I must say, the acrobatic, other-worldly ability of these well-fit people blew me away. No matter what feat they attempted to pull off, one word kept popping up in my mind: balance. Here is a video as a case […]
Psalm 91
Several years ago as Liz and I walked the beautiful mall downtown D.C., an ominous storm appeared out of nowhere. Before we knew it, blinding rain pelted us, lightning strikes etched the sky, as thunder sounded like bombs going off. What did we do? We, along with everyone else, ran as fast as we could for the park’s […]
Psalm 84
People can be passionate about the most amazing things. Consider how some folks view their cars as rolling billboards regarding ideologies they hold near and dear: What do you think this person is sold out to? I’m thinking they don’t think too much of the Air Force, Navy, Army, or Coast Guard. What would you say? Here’s another: I guess this person is […]
Easter Sunday – Seeing Is Believing
During a key baseball game against one of our rivals my last year of High School, a batter on the opposing team drilled a fly ball to my position in left field. I could tell by its trajectory, height, and speed it would clearly leave the stadium, so I ran toward the warning track just to make it […]
“It Is Finished!”
Because of modern medicine, we’ve lost the opportunity to hear the last words of dying people. Most who are about to slip into eternity are drugged to make them comfortable. The only problem is this also puts them in a coma-like state, thereby prohibiting them from speaking to us. We are left wondering if they are hearing us, […]
“Why Have You Forsaken Me?”
High noon. It’s the time in the classic western by the same name when a brave sheriff, played by Gary Cooper, single-handedly took on a ruthless gang of evil men to save a once peaceful town from their criminal influence. High noon. It’s the time when 2,000 years ago, another man of courage and principle took on the […]
“Woman, Behold Your Son…”
As I think about our Lord’s final statements from the cross, my soul can readily identify with the words from Stuart Hine’s magnificent old hymn How Great Thou Art. And when I think that God, His Son not sparing, sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in; that on the cross, my burden gladly […]
“Today You Shall Be With Me In Paradise…”
In 2017, one of my cousins finally succumbed to the disease which ate away at his body. His name? Jimmy Bowers. He was the son of the oldest of my father’s sisters, Beatrice, so he was always considerably older than the rest of the cousins. So, when I was a kid, he was a young […]
“Father Forgive Them…”
Final words. They have a way of sticking with you for a lifetime. The year was 1981. The month was a cold, foggy January day in Stockton. I was a twenty-two-year-old newlywed working for a landscape company as I awaited acceptance at Dallas Theological Seminary. The call from my father in San Diego caught me […]
Psalm 81
How important is it for you to corporately worship the living God? Jesus educates us when He took the disgruntled, envious Pharisees to task on the glorious day of His triumphal entry into Jerusalem: 37 As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples […]
Psalm 74
What are God’s people to do when their institutions are devastated by ruthless enemies? How should Christians respond when the culture implodes and into the power vacuum steps ideologically driven people bent on silencing the Church, the voice of truth and morality? In January of 1933, Hitler was basically a low-level politician nobody really listened […]
Psalm 73
Some questions, based on how God deals or doesn’t deal with various people and issues in your life, can become like a cancer eating away at your once vibrant faith. Yes, when God doesn’t act in a fashion you expect based either on what you know about Him or in relation to what you feel […]