Pressed but Not Crushed

For those of you wondering where the posts went, suffice it to say that I’m underpowered on my computing ability these days. My personal computer is on the fritz thanks to a dilapidated heat sink. It fell right off of the processor about 8 weeks ago. Dell has...

Fitting In

SCRIPTURE: Job 35-36; 1 Cor. 7-8 1 Cor 7:23-24 All of you, slave and free both, were once held hostage in a sinful society. Then a huge sum was paid out for your ransom. So please don’t, out of old habit, slip back into being or doing what everyone else tells...

Eh?

SCRIPTURE: Job 20; Mark 3-4 Mark 4:23 “Are you listening to this? Really listening? OBSERVATIONS: Jesus simply checks the pulse of the listener to make sure he is still engaging them. This is done by almost all great teachers. “Are you with me? Does that...

Dancing in the Dark

SCRIPTURE: Job 18; Ps. 114; Acts 27-28 Acts 27:33-34 With dawn about to break, Paul called everyone together and proposed breakfast: “This is the fourteenth day we’ve gone without food. None of us has felt like eating! But I urge you to eat something now....

Inventory

SCRIPTURE: Neh. 11-12; Ps. 1; Acts 3 Acts 3:1-8 One day at three o’clock in the afternoon, Peter and John were on their way into the Temple for prayer meeting. At the same time there was a man crippled from birth being carried up. Every day he was set down at...

What Next?

SCRIPTURE: Neh. 9-10; Acts 2 Acts 2:37-40 Cut to the quick, those who were there listening asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers! Brothers! So now what do we do?” Peter said, “Change your life. Turn to God and be baptized, each of you, in the...