And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward. Matthew 10:42 Tuesday, 1 PM: I just drove the Bali mission team to Dulles airport for the first leg of their 21 hour flight to Indonesia. Their first flight is 14 hours to Seoul, South Korea. They have a couple of hour layover and then a seven hour flight…
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 In the 1994 critically acclaimed movie The Shawshank Redemption, the life of a young successful banker Andy Dufresne is forever altered when he is wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment at Shawshank Prison. Over the course of the years he develops long term friendships with other lifers, including Brooks Hatlin, the prison librarian. Brooks has been in the prison for so…
I will sing of your steadfast love, O LORD, forever; with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 89:1 A couple of weeks ago I was sneaking around the house, the way parents sometimes do, to check up on what my kids were doing. Josh is downstairs watching ESPN sports center, check. Amanda is in her room reading a book, check. Katelyn is at the kitchen table with the laptop playing some kind of matching game…
Colossians 1:12-13 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the son he loves in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Over the last several years I’ve kind of gotten into reading James Mitchener novels. Mitchener was the Pulitzer prize winning novelist who wrote Tales of the South…