What would it have been like to partake in the Lord’s Supper with the apostles?  Or, with Mary, Martha and Lazarus?  Or any of those upon whom the Lord made such a lasting impact?  What would they be thinking about as the words rolled across their minds, “Do this in remembrance of Me” (Luke 22:19)?  They could have been thinking about any…

Auschwitz and the surrounding camps were liberated by the Soviet Army in Nazi controlled Poland on January 27, 1945. There were only 7,600 people still there when the Red army arrived. 58,000 men and women had been lead away on a death march in an effort to conceal the magnitude of their crimes. They were marched by the Nazi SS soldiers to…

You have seen them.  These are the “Jesus is my co-pilot” bumper sticker Christians. The ones that just “feel” like they know what God wants for their lives. The ones that are “called by God” to make a ministry out of every obscure verb or concept.  The ones that say they are praying for you but are never around when life gets…

“In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland—starving and outnumbered—charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom.” This last line in the movie Braveheart brought to life the concept of the warrior poet. Throughout history, we can see this genre of the warrior cast played out, from the warriors of…

I watched a video recently of a boy opening a gift, and it reminded me of God.  As the boy opened the gift and realized what it was, emotion rolled over him.  His shoulders dropped, his eyes filled up with tears, and he hugged his new mom and dad.  He had been adopted.  He held tightly in his hands ordinary paper with…

It would be an understatement to say that the Bible was beautifully written. A more accurate statement is that godly men were moved by inspiration to pen the very words that God would have them to write (2 Pet. 1:20-21). Those words contain a very sober and challenging warning with relation to our time on this earth. “So there remains a Sabbath…

“Here come I to my own again, Fed, forgiven and known again, Claimed by bone of my bone again and cheered by flesh of my flesh” (1-3). Joseph Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, opened his poem “The Prodigal Son” with those lines. In it he writes from the perspective of the returning son.  As we consider that thought, what should…

How many of you are preparing for guests or family coming into town during this time of year? It is a phenomenon that is quite common. You know you have family coming. You begin prepping months, weeks, days, hours and minutes before their arrival. There are seemingly soo many details to think about, if you are a female. Guys tend to be…