Dear Friends, I collected another birthday this weekend. I have a lot of them now, enough to make comparisons, though none of them are rejects. Birthdays don’t fare so well in Scripture. There are only two birthday celebrations mentioned and in one Pharaoh hanged his chief baker and in the other King Herod decapitated John
Dear Friends, This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the
Dear Friends, The lamp of the Lord had not gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of the Lord was. Then the Lord called Samuel . . . He was afraid to tell Eli the vision, but Eli called to him and said, ‘ Samuel, my
Dear Friends, So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then Festus gave the order and Paul was brought in (Acts 25:23). Among the special hells experienced on this earth surely must be having
Dear Friends, Around midnight, every night, I pray. I pray for my wife, I pray for my son, I pray for my friends and colleagues (which blessedly are one and the same), and for the clients we serve. Then I think about my friends who are suffering. Some of them are battling cancers and other