Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest, and let these gifts to us be blessed. An old family mealtime prayer. Do you pray at mealtime? Does your family still gather around…
Growing up, I’d sometimes ask my father for some money. He didn’t often have much, but I don’t recall him ever saying no. Later, when I was away at college…
It doesn’t exactly feel as if my demons have submitted yet, but maybe they just want me to think they haven’t. The truth is they’re done. They’ve lost. They aren’t…
I wish they had been walking by a field, maybe at sowing time. As it is, “they were walking along the road” (9:57). It’s a dirt road. The road is…
Jesus sent the apostles out with authority to cast out demons and to heal. Oh, how we’d love some healing, just now. Can you feel the need for it, out…
Corpus Christi is a hot place. When we lived there, I saw what amazed me: a man, walking. It wasn’t once or twice. I saw him nearly every day, walking…
We’ve been reading our way through 1 Timothy. Timothy was in Ephesus, trying to get some things straightened out in the church there. If we think of Ephesus at all,…
“[D]o nothing out of favoritism” (5:21). Remember Joseph and his eleven brothers? I guess Jacob just couldn’t help himself. Well, he had learned from the best: his mother, who…
Those ancient builders in Greece and Rome really knew what they were doing. No, the roofs are no longer there, but the foundations remain, and many pillars. Lots and lots…
elder When Paul was writing, there were no church buildings, only home churches. Let’s all meet at my house next Sunday! Well, we’d be squeezed in,…