Month: November 2023Page 2 of 2
We hear about court cases in the news from time to time. There is one thing that can be learned from them. When your lawyer tells you to…
In the movie Talladega Nights, (bear with me here) Ricky Bobby has a motto: if you’re not first, you’re last. In the context of that silly movie, that’s what gets…
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor, not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in…
People change and time moves us all along so a mistaken identity or a forgotten acquaintance here or there is forgivable. Some of us know a much harder…
Slavery is incurred by debt in the Roman world; aside from cases of prisoners of war, slavery was a reversable condition. The slave of God is put into…
“I hope I never have to go through that because I don’t know what I’d do.” This phrase is often heard when someone is remarking on another’s poor…
Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs.In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will…
Adults almost have an allergy to kindness being shown to them. It’s undignified to have someone care for you, it would seem to some, as if the slightest…
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. Exodus 14:14 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth.He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns…
Learn to take yes for an answer. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom.Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Proverbs 4:7-9 Proverbs tells us very…