During one of the worst times in history, one of the best examples of Christian behavior emerged. In 1940 when German Nazis invaded Holland, John Henry Weidner—a Dutch citizen in his late 20s—happened to be in Paris. Unable to reach England with the purpose of joining the Allied armies, he remai...
A matter of ownership. Have you ever noticed how emphatically the Good Shepherd claims ownership of the sheep in the narrative of John 10? He “calls his own” (v.3); “he brings out his own” (v.4); “I know my sheep.. .am known by my own” (v. 14); “I lay down my life for my sheep” (v. 15); and “ot...
Anxiety. Pain. Brokenness. These are just some of the results of sin that we witness every day. Everyone experiences setbacks that were not in the original plan for our world. Our role, our mission and, most importantly, our responsibility is to ease the results of sin. When Christ was on Earth...
Stewardship is living the biblical life fully.
In the 1970s the world’s fastest supercomputer cost about seven million dollars and filled a room. It was superfast and superhot, as far as computers went. Only problem? The iPhone 5 is about a million times faster! For thousands of years, communication never went much faster than the fastest h...
Follow along with me on a bit of logic, if you will. The apostle John wrote that "God is love" (1 John 4:8). Jesus Himself said that the greatest of all laws is to "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind," and to "love your neighbor as yourself" ...