March 13
Day 274: God Loves His Enemies Our Bibles talk a lot about "enemies." The word appears so many times, the listings of this one word take up almost an entire page of my "Exhaustive Concordance." (I got exhausted trying to add it all up!) There are references to enemies without. Contrasted with references to enemies […]
March 12
Day 273: Not Swayed By Appearances In Matthew 22, some of His detractors (conservatives and liberals) went to Jesus to ask a question about taxation. They didn't want to know what Jesus thought. They wanted Him to politically entrap himself. They begin by offering Him platitudes. "We know that you are true and teach the […]
March 11
Day 272: A Worldview Worth Hanging On To I just returned home from having breakfast with a new friend. He also happens to be our church's insurance agent. Instead of talking insurance (good thing!) he told me how he and his wife are expecting their first child in just a few weeks time. He had […]
March 10
Day 271: Humility Will Be a Great Joy There is a part of Psalm 18 that we may read, and then assume almost all of it applies to us, even describes us. "With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; with the purified you show yourself pure; and […]