And here we are at the end of Moments of Grace. Over the past seven weeks we have seen how Grace has been experienced and expressed throughout the Bible and we’ve looked at Grace displayed in an unlikely person, in an unlikely place, at an unlikely time and two weeks ago we saw how Jesus…
What the Hell?
Long before I knew about God’s grace I knew about Gods’ wrath. Long before I had encountered a loving God I knew about the fires of hell. Some of those images came from culture and some came from art. All in all I think I prefer Larson to Michelangelo, but I’m that kind of guy.…
Missed it, by that much.
I was talking to a friend the other day when the topic of the terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso came up & she mentioned that I had been there in the past and wanted to know how I felt about what had happened. And the conversation got me thinking, I was supposed to be leading…
Dying to Give
It’s one of those bizarre stories in the Bible that make you scratch your head and say: Huhh? And it’s one of those stories that people sometimes ask me about, it really seems more fitting in the Old Testament than as one of the first stories about the early church in the New Testament. This…
Do You See What I See?
Last Thursday, I had a late afternoon appointment with my eye specialist and as part of the process he dilated my eyes. Not the first time I’ve had my eyes dilated but I never had them dilated so late in the day before. After supper Angela and I drove our son back into the city,…
A Lot of Zeros
1.3 billion dollars, that’s a one and a three followed by eight zeros. That’s the projected jackpot in the US Lottery Powerball this week. And there will be people who will play this week who didn’t play last week because apparently last weeks’ jackpot of just under a billion dollars wasn’t large enough, but 1.3…
A Peek inside the Closet
Skeletons in God’s Closet, intro They are lurking in of our closets, things that we wished we had never done, words we wished we had never spoken. Families have them, churches have them and individuals have them. Because we all make mistakes. We all have skeletons in our closets. Some are scarier than others but…
No Worries
The other day, I sat with a lady who is receiving palliative care, and she cheered me up. It’s not often that happens, but during the entire time there I didn’t hear a discouraging word from her, no complaints, no regrets.Bev has spent her life loving Jesus and serving His church as a pastor’s wife…
Gilligan’s Island and the Seven Deadly Sins
That’s right, Gilligan’s Island and the Seven Deadly sins. Seems like a bit of a stretch but I thought it would be a fun study for the depths of winter and it starts next Sunday night at 6:30. And for many people the one thing that this fifty-year-old sitcom and a list of sins that…