In a recent episode of NCIS, Agent Gibbs and Agent Bishop go to Afghanistan to solve a murder. They figure out where the murderer is hiding, but they need someone to go undercover in order to infiltrate his camp. Bishop is picked to go undercover, and she panics. She tells Gibbs, “Don’t put me in…
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Psalm 1 begins, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” Sometimes, it’s hard to picture ourselves…
Recently I had an opportunity to be a part of something that felt like the beginning of a bad joke – a Baptist, a Lutheran, a Presbyterian, a Roman Catholic, and a non-traditional denomination guy walk into a cathedral . . . We were meeting in order to talk about our theologies and were they…
November 20th used to be just another day, but from now on, I will always remember November 20th as the day that a gunman entered Strozier Library. The evening of November 20th, after a long day of contacting our students to make sure they were all right, Pastor Jay held a prayer service at University…
If your friends talked to you the same way you talk to yourself, would they still be your friends? Think about that for a minute. If your friends came up to you and said, “You’re ugly. You’re stupid. You’re a loser. You’ll never be a success. Nobody loves you,” you would be upset with them…
Have you ever watched a balloon let go of by the hand of a little child? Have you watched it climb higher and higher and higher into the air, until it was just a small little red speck in the sky carried away by the wind? Have you wondered how far it went? Have you…
It’s easy to be negative about our mission. We acknowledge that we are to share the life-saving Word of God with the world, but we don’t anticipate this happening during our lifetimes (if ever). After all, with everything that’s happening around the globe – from the rise of the “nones” to terrorist attacks – how…
When you think of Heaven, what image comes to your head? For me, it’s golden streets, big mansions, and beautiful open fields. Okay, next question. When you think of the people in Heaven, who comes to your head? I automatically picture people who look like me. Not that they all have red hair and glasses,…
We’ve all done it. We look at someone whose sins are different from ours and say, “Well, at least I’m not like them.” We compare ourselves with others without even thinking about it. At least we aren’t homosexuals. At least we aren’t murderers. At least we aren’t adulterers. And the list goes on. It’s our…
“Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals;…