f your hand or your foot causes you to sin cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. Matthew 18:8 Late last night I turned on the TV to catch the Republican primary results from Michigan and Arizona before I went to bed. As I was flipping through the channels to get to CNN, I stumbled…
Psalm 62:8 Trust in [God] at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks at the Benedict house with the throttle wide-open for ministry and life in general. So last week my wife gently approached me to mention that we weren’t talking enough. Always a bit defensive with these types of conversations, I think I said something like, “Well, that’s news to me, aren’t we talking…
Mark 1:15 “The time has come” [Jesus] said. “Repent and believe the good news!” I was talking with Lance Utne, one of our 10th grade class shepherd, last night at the Patriot/Stonewall boys basketball game. He shared a humorous story from teen Sunday school this past week. Every week the senior high youth gather for a time of group instruction and then break out into various small groups for further teaching and discussion. Now, I was a youth pastor for…