Category: Calvary
Remember the Future
History. For most people, it’s a topic that’s akin to watching paint dry: tedious, boring, and ultimately pointless. “Why should I learn about George Washington crossing the Delaware or about a Macedonian named Alexander the Great who lived close to 2,400 years ago?” For most of us, we feel anonymous, insulated and not part of the history-making process. We’re not a Washington, Jefferson, or Lincoln. For that matter, we’re not even close to or work in places where “history” is made, like the White House. → Read more...
Reaching Out to God, Sort of
Nine years ago, I had the fantastic opportunity to go to Italy when I attended Trinity Christian College. It was a trip that’s never really left me, staying close to my heart. We started our journey in Milan and worked our way south to Rome through cities like Venice, Florence and Naples. We walked through and touched walls of buildings that were hundreds of years older than America. If there was ever a time that I wished that walls could talk, it was then! → Read more...
The Colors of the World
Ever since Pastor Howard preached a few weeks ago about racial reconciliation, I’ve been thinking more and more about how diversity is one of our (when I say our, I mean us as a species) greatest strength. Most people make the wrong assumption that it divides, but that’s only because we allow it to. (If you missed the sermon, don’t forget you can listen to it online by visiting our website! We had some issues that prevented us from uploading, but it is now fixed and we’re caught up.) → Read more...
Your Book Report
“And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. … If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” –Revelation 20:12,15 One of my both equally fondest and hated memories of school is doing book reports. → Read more...
It’s Not Just You and Me in America, Part II
A lot of times, through no fault of our own, we forget that there are other people in the world. Once we do that, we usually make the mistake of thinking that our experiences in America are replicated everywhere else. We often forget that there are countries that don’t have the same freedoms and blessings that we’re fortunate to have in America. One of the benefits of keeping up with the news and reading well-written news stories is that they brIng my attention to many things that I would not know about. → Read more...
The Permanence of Truth
Last week, I wrote about the sticky situation that Tiger Woods suddenly found himself in, having all of his hidden deceptions quickly destroyed by news organizations and tabloids digging for the truth. In Proverbs 12:19, Solomon wrote, “Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.” Tiger–and to be sure, the rest of us–discover this proverb to be literally true. Often times when we lie, we find that our lies quickly fall apart when confronted with the truth. → Read more...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Deception
I don’t really follow golf. Golf, to me, has always been one of those sports, like bowling and darts, that’s more fun to play than to watch. But even I, someone who doesn’t really know the difference between a sand wedge and a lob wedge, know about Tiger Woods and his innate, amazing ability with a golf club. People who don’t normally watch golf would watch him play. Television ratings for a tournament that Tiger is in are higher than a similarly televised tournament without him in it, something that has come to be called “the Tiger Woods effect.” → Read more...
I, State Your Name
Imagine this: You get pulled over by the police. As soon as the officer arrives at your door, you suddenly realize you don’t have your wallet with you. You have no way of identifying yourself. As your heart sinks, you realize it doesn’t matter how well you know yourself and how certain you are who you say you are, the police officer can’t and won’t ascertain your identity by your verbal claims of who you are. → Read more...
Wisdom Found on a Thread
I am of the firm believer there are no accidents in life. The things that we label coincidences are part of a divine plan that has been set from the very beginning when the world was spoken into existence. This plan–God’s plan–forgets nothing and includes everything, weaving large events and small decisions into a tapestry of human experience that spans thousands of years. As I’ve spoken briefly about in the past, I’ve been privileged to lead a small group of teenage boys from our high school youth group. → Read more...
With God, Anything’s Possible… Part I
March 11, 2010
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Matt
Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee, and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick. When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. → Read more...
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