There’s never an excuse for not doing what He has called us to do
I write this on the second day of spring, the second day of what is known as Holy Week, and the day after a wonderful Palm Sunday service. During the service a powerful prophetic exhortation was shared. The word contained encouragement and correction, and certainly there was more than one application, but the takeaway for […]
The Greater Our Suffering Now, the More We Will Appreciate the Return of Christ
March is the month spring officially arrives. You never know what it’s going to be like, especially here in central Illinois, but the thought of springtime is a welcome one for most people. Even the weird ones, like me, who love snow and cold, have a hard time not getting excited about lengthening days and […]
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily en-snares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,”– Hebrews 12:1 Often, when approaching this well-known verse, there is a great deal of […]
And Now Back to the “Grind”
It’s a new year! I’m writing this in December, and nothing official has come across my desk yet, but word is they will call it 2016. And with New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day, we wrap up the “holiday season.” Reminds me of a joke: a man dies and finds himself in hell. He […]
Does the Blood of Christ Cover Us or Cleanse Us?
Well, there’s snow on the ground just in time for me to write my December column! I took a longish drive yesterday and was really struck by how uniformly the snow had covered everything during a good stretch of it. For miles, I couldn’t tell what was under the snow. Concrete? Dirt? Grass? Driveways were […]