Tag: Psalm
When All of a Sudden…
If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you know about the tragic story of Air France 447 that was enroute to Paris from Rio de Janeiro. It is now acknowledged as Air France’s worst plane crash and the world’s worst commercial air accident since 2001. Two hundred and twenty-eight people perished last Sunday night. Today, the crews began picking up some of the debris out of the Atlantic Ocean as Air France began notifying family members of those who were onboard that there was no chance of survivors as the airplane disintegrated either in the air or when it hit the ocean. → Read more...
You Need to Be Rich to Be Poor
Sometimes when the Holy Spirit tugs, you need to listen, you know? This week it brought an article in The Washington Post to my attention. The first line of the article, in which I have paraphrased as this week’s title, hooked me in. It’s quite a lengthy read for the internet, but well, well worth your time. Here’s the link. The article goes into detail the problems that people who are in poverty face and into the harsh irony that living in the middle class or upper class is actually cheaper than living below the poverty line. → Read more...
Quiet Solitude, We Hardly Knew Ye, Part I
On Tuesday nights, my wife and I have the unbelievable honor and privilege of helping with a small group for our teens who attend youth group here at Calvary. I remember vividly how bewildering adolescence and high school was, what with the mixture of hormones, the burgeoning awareness of one’s identity, the pressure to conform AND be individual, and trying to gain footing in a world that seems to grow exponentially the closer one gets to college. → Read more...
Baggage Claim
This week I’ve been thinking about our baggage. Not the Samsonite ones that we carry with us to the airport. Not that kind. I’m talking about the things, ideas, ideals, thoughts, hurts, wounds, emotions, fantasies, and opinions that we all carry with us, sometimes consciously, but usually and oftentimes subconsciously. When you go to the airport and check in your bags to put on the plane, they ask you to put it on a scale to measure the weight of the bag. → Read more...
The Permanence of Truth
December 10, 2009
Calvary
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Matt
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...
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