Never a Small Thing!
My dear brothers in pastoral ministry, It’s been my honor to serve you the past 18 months as director of Grow in Grace. A particular honor of this calling was writing Grace Notes, meant to ...
“A Happy Ending” Daniel 12:1-4
Profound truth: “It’s incredibly valuable for you that Daniel 12 comes after Daniel 1-11.” Perhaps you’re thinking, “It is?!” It is! Daniel 10-11 contains an amazing prophecy, in which God allows Daniel to see, sometimes ...
Mark 8:27-35
“Get behind me, Satan!” (Mark 8:33) Can you imagine how Peter would have felt when Jesus directed those words at him? Wow! If I’d been Peter, I would have wanted to crawl under a rock! ...
“Changes” Hebrews 13:1-6
So, how many changes have you seen over the course of your life? As I think about my lifetime, I can’t help but think, “Wow! There have been so many changes!” The reality is, ...
“Yes, you can!” 1Kings 19:3-8
"I can’t do this anymore!” Do you guess that Elijah might have said those words, or felt that way? That sure seems to be a fair rendition of what he says in 1Kings 19:4, ...
“Chosen” Ephesians 1:3-14
Do we love preaching predestination? Or does it perhaps scare us, or intimidate us, or at least cause us to pause? I’ll confess some of the latter. That seems reasonable, doesn’t it? After all, predestination ...
Is there anything else that needs to be said? Genesis 3:8-15
It is such a mess, isn’t it? Adam and Eve have grabbed the fruit off the Tree of Knowledge, and God’s come to “chat” with his fallen children. And wow! They make such a mess ...