When I was a teenager (ages ago!) I lived with an old aunt who inadvertently taught me a valuable lesson. She often said with a sigh, “If only.” Usually, it was, “If only he would have _____.” Sometimes it was, “If only I felt better.” Or, “If only we had _______.” Her sighing and wishing…
The Winner
We love to be on the winning side whether it be a ball game, a lawsuit, an election, or a war. What if I told you that I’m on the winning side of a cosmic war that is affecting more worlds than our own? What if I told you that I know personally the Commander…
Foretold
What do the Jewish prophets have to do with the season of Lent, the forty days preceding the Christian holidays of Good Friday and Resurrection Day? Shouldn’t we just stick with the biography of Jesus in the Gospels? Actually, God’s plan to send us a Savior/Messiah was first recorded in Genesis. Through the ancient prophets,…
Helper
Have you ever gotten hung up on something that doesn’t make sense to you in the Bible? We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a big doubt that arises in your mind over something seemingly cruel, a miracle, or just a detail that seems to conflict with another recounting of the story in another book of…
Impossible!
Yesterday in children’s Bible class, we reviewed the first fifteen chapters of Exodus. (!) As I watched the children reenact crossing the Red Sea, it occurred to me that I was asking them to believe the impossible. I was telling them that an ancient document claimed that there is a God in Heaven who is…
Doing Good
My favorite eleven-year-old boy in Bible class flashed me that ‘Guess what?’ smile right after he’d helped me set up for class. He had stopped at the top of the stairs just before leaving and I knew I was in for a good story. He whipped out his small New Testament and showed me that…