I love ambition. My entire life, I have been ambitious. I want to accomplish something. If I’m not working toward a big goal, I get frustrated. I would not enjoy working with someone who doesn’t have ambition. Blind ambition and selfish ambition, I want to avoid. But a desire for success that serves God’s Kingdom […]
Today, I’m thinking about heroes. I have several in my life: of course my parents, and I would include John Wilson, a pastor in Springfield that enabled my entry into the ministry. I could list several others but I will stop with Lewis Foster, my seminary professor. He kept me from quitting my master’s level
Hope … Ed Sheeran was the number one concert draw in the world in 2019. In fact he was the number one concert draw ever last year. King David is the greatest songwriter ever– move over Beatles and Elvis. His songs have been re-written, re-sung and his songwriting has brought hope and comfort for three
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God does the impossible. In creation something came from nothing — there was nothing and in a nanosecond the universe and even time existed. Something can’t come from nothing. Science says it’s impossible. Moses and the entire nation of Israel were in difficulty. Behind Israel was Pharaoh and the mightiest army in the world and
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Grace and Mercy … To follow Jesus, to have a life of abundance, to have peace, and to love. The most essential verse in the Bible is 1 Corinthians 13:13… Abide in faith, hope, love and the greatest of these is love. The Bible says that God is love. It doesn’t say that God is
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Saints… The Apostle Paul stayed at a house in Rome for two years. He was not allowed to go outside. Sounds like today in America. Paul’s was not a self-imposed quarantine but a Caesar-imposed quarantine. He was in prison awaiting trial. In ancient Rome, prisoners could choose to be imprisoned in a dungeon (not good!)
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Jesus teaches that scripture contains prophecy so that we will not be caught unaware when Jesus returns. I’ve been asked recently if I believe that Jesus is going to return soon. My answer is always, “Yes and I don’t know.” We should live as if Jesus will return at any moment. We don’t know the
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Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that I am God.” Another version says, “Cease striving and know that I am God.” I would translate the verse as, “Be quiet. Stop the busyness. Listen to God!” We assume wrongly that God always speaks through lightning bolts, burning bushes, or tongues of fire. When I hear
Peace and Presence … I had a fanny pack that I once wore while riding my bike. Cycling down a hill, I felt it unclasp, and I thought, “I need to grab it before it comes off and falls into a wheel.” I woke up an hour later in the ER. I had performed the
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Hope! My wife and I have been walking a lot recently. A favorite route is through Wittenberg University campus. Walking past a dorm recently, a young woman walked out and I asked her … trying to be humorous … if she was the last person left on campus. She replied that it had been impossible
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