Unstoppable: Fuel for Service from Isaiah 40
My wife, Tracy, and I had spent all day on a bus. We had just arrived in a rural town; we stepped off the bus into the pitch black; we weren’t completely sure which way we should be walking. But we could hear it. We didn’t know which direction the sound was coming from. We […]
Finding Important What Jesus Finds Important
What’s important to Jesus? This is the question I asked recently at a men’s breakfast in my church. The men willingly offered a variety of solid biblical answers: the church, love, truth, individual Christians, evangelism, prayer, outcasts, and a host of other answers. In the days leading up to this event I had been reading […]
In the Depths? Help from Jonah 2
A single image, from my first few visits to London, is impressed on my mind: the view from the top of an escalator in the larger Underground Tube stations. I remember standing looking at this enormous moving stairway, tilted at a frightening angle, inching slowly but steadily into the depths of London’s underground. Imagine gazing […]
This is Meekness
In a true knowledge of our standing before God we possess an inner strength that enables us to act for the benefit of others, even at our own expense.