A Mic Drop Moment
Over the last several months I have been moving my office of 18 years from the church building back home. In the seemingly endless endeavor, I uncovered a plethora of items totally deleted from my memory. Most...
Reading on Empty
I was challenged the other day through one of my readings. Stant Litore, in Lives of Unforgetting, writes, following the Pharisees challenge to Jesus about His disciples eating on the Sabbath (Mark 2:23-28), of how they read the...
Alphabricks: Gospel
Snap Shot In the Greek language the word for gospel meant a reward for good news; and then later became the good news itself. However, in the New Testament the gospel is contextually spoken as the glad tidings...
Buying Time
“Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” (Colossians 4:5-6 ESV) For...
His Name…Emmanuel
It was the first Old Testament prophecy fulfilled in the New Testament, “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God...
Preparing for That Day…Unashamedly
One of the songs that comforted me greatly in my Christian past was the Brooklyn Tabernacle’s rendition of “I am Not Ashamed.” Time, space, and context prohibits a detailed explanation of just why it ministered to me...