I recently read that a few years ago the Russian parliament passed a bill making it specifically illegal for people to eat their pets. Now if you stop and think this one through, you’d realize that the only reason that this legislation would have happened was this had to have been a problem. I mean if…
The Kingdom is . . . Like a Fishing Net
Most of us know the words. We can recite them without thinking and often have. You know it as the Lord’s prayer and it was read for us earlier. When the passage was read earlier it was read from the New Living Translation, but that isn’t how we know the Lord’s prayer. There are several…
Wholesome speech
We are told that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover and I was guilty of doing just that. Last week I saw an older man, by older I mean older than me, and he was well groomed and well dressed. I immediately thought of him as a gentleman but then he opened his…
The Kingdom is Like. . . Workers in a Field
Have you ever had to work with someone who just doesn’t get it? Whatever it is? Maybe you’re trying to explain how a particular program works, or perhaps you’re trying to get them to understand the ethos of your company. Why and how you do what you do. But you have to keep coming back…
The Scandal of History
I call it: The scandal of history. And society is struggling with that scandal today. People are convinced that if they had done it, that they’d have done it right, or at least better. They truly believe that with them in charge there would have been no abuses and they wouldn’t have made any mistakes. Because they believe…
The Kingdom of God is. . . Like a Pearl
It was a collision of sorts. A Collison of Kingdoms. Pilate who was the most powerful man in the country stood in judgment of Jesus, the most powerful being in the universe. Jesus has been arrested and brought to Pilate by the religious authorities. The charges were blasphemy and treason. And for whatever reason, Pilate…
Terminal
I found out the other day that I have less than a year to live. It was quite a shock when I found out. It wasn’t my doctor who told me but an article that I read. The thesis was that when you subtract the time sleeping, working, tending to personal matters, hygiene, odd chores, medical matters,…
Damascus Road Experience
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future. Those words were penned over a hundred years ago by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde but they could very well have been written about a young man named Saul who came to a pivotal point in his life where he would have to choose to…
On Churches and Churches
I’m discovering, yet again, that a church building is not necessarily one thing, instead it is a compilation of many different things. There’s electrical, heating and ventilation, not to mention plumbing, floor coverings, paint, sound systems and a thousand other details that all have to come together so that people will see not a whole pile…
Why’d it have to be a spider?
It was terrifying. It was the biggest spider that I’ve ever seen... and remember I lived in Australia! It was right in front of me on the dash of my car. Seriously, the thing was humongous. I freaked out. I threw the car in park and tried to figure out either how to escape or how to kill the…