” Jesus enters OUR LIVES AND OUR CIRCUMSTANCES triumphant over any enemy and affliction of spirit, soul or body. He enters today our conditions of depression or misery AS OUR VICTOR.”
Tag: Alabama
From One World to the Next
John 10: 1-10 The thief comes to steal. In a confessional booth, a man confessed to his priest he’d been stealing building supplies from the lumberyard where he worked. In fact, he stole enough to build homes for himself, his son and his two daughters. “This is very serious,” the priest said. “I shall have…
Preserve and Illuminate
Matthew 5: 13-20 In a small church during the summer, a pastor was preaching with gusto. Due to the warmth of the evening, the windows were open, and bugs of all sizes were attracted to the sanctuary lights. As the pastor was making an energetic point, a large moth flew into his open mouth. The…
I Want to Please the Lord
Colossians 1: 9-14 Paul wrote and we heard it this morning, “We have not stopped praying for you. . . ” A mother was teaching her three-year-old daughter the Lord’s Prayer. For several evenings at bed time she repeated it after her mother. One night she said she was ready to try it on her…
In the Unfamiliar
Luke 8: 26-39 As I’ve said several times from this pulpit I love reading and talking about the miracle stories in the Bible. This story from the gospel of Luke qualifies as a classic miracle of Jesus. There is clearly a problem. There is the action of our hero, and a clear cut resolution. Luke,…
Return
Several years ago when I was reading, again, Psalm 102 in The Message translation, I was captured surprisingly by the simplest of words. The word was, “Write.” Write this down for the next generation so people not yet born will praise God:“God looked out from his high holy place; from heaven he surveyed the earth.He…
The World Is Really Changing
I read from Psalm 71 this week. A set of verses encouraged me to believe afresh in the purpose of this blog. But I will hope continually, and will praise you yet more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all day long, though their number is…
God’s Salvation On This Holy Mountain
I was recently inspired to compose and post the vision God has given April and me. As we ministered the last few years as ordained elders in the United Methodist Church, specifically at a church in Albertville, AL, the Lord drew us close to himself in ways, expressions and encounters we never thought possible as…
Surveying the Earth
I got out of bed to go to the bathroom at 6:56 a.m. recently. As I walked through the bedroom, I thought 6:56 could be a chapter and verses. Zechariah came to mind again by time I made it back to the bedroom. I went back to sleep. I looked up Zech. 6: 5-6 when…
One Sunday In June (Triple Crown)
But he looked at them and said, “What then does this text mean: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone?’” — Luke 20: 17 Sunday morning as I was preparing to go with April and Anna to worship, I read what Doug Addison posted on Facebook that morning, to expect the Lord…
Psalm 102 in The Message 