Murals When I was a young man, I had a good friend that was a naturally gifted artist. His specialty was painting murals. I never ceased to be amazed when he’d start sketching out a picture on a roll of butcher block paper that ran the length of a room. Perhaps the fascinating aspect of …
It is the Holy Spirit in us that makes us helpful to others. It is our imperfections (not sin) that make us relatable to others. Consider what the Apostle Paul wrote: 13 You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first, 14 and though my condition …
A little boy is telling his grandma how “everything” is going wrong. School, family problems, bullies, and so forth. Meanwhile, Grandma is baking a cake. She asks her grandson if he would like a snack, which of course he does. “Here, have some cooking oil.” “Yuck!” says the boy. “How about a couple of raw …
“Daddy, if God loves us, why does He hide?” I asked my dad when I was young. I don’t remember Dad’s answer but, knowing him, he gave me a thorough, accurate, and theologically correct answer. But, sometimes, we don’t need an expansive answer articulated to us. Instead, we need something we can grab on and …
As Christians, we experience whirligigs in our spiritual lives from time to time.
Seeds can be sown correctly, spaced correctly, fertilized correctly, but without good soil they will never germinate, they will never grow and produce fruit. So, what is “good soil?” Good soil seems to have three things. It has dirt. It has sun. It has water (moisture). Think about it, for a seed to grow it …
Same Comforter My daughter has Irish twins, that is, she gave birth to two babies less than a year apart; her’s are eleven months apart. They are such a blessing to her family and the grandparents. Of course, many times, the “twins” both need to be comforted at the same time but for different reasons; …
Buy God – At the core of trying to buy God are a lack of faith and evil intent.
I have posts that I want to publish, but I was reading a “Be Blesstified” blog post by Minister Aldtric Johnson and what he had to say is more important. So please read his post, “BLACK HISTORY MONTH: PLEASE SHOW SANITATION PROFESSIONALS SOME LOVE…“ I’ll be back next time. Thanks. Photo by James Coleman on Unsplash
Truly, we serve an incomprehensible, marvelous, wondrous, complex God that loves us so much that He sacrificed His Son to provide a way of escape from His wrath and judgment.
