Just Being There
Every Sunday, for as long as I can recall, there is a man who always enters the worship center just a little before the time of worship begins. He takes his place in the same area, usually the same chair and sits alone. He may shake a hand or two…
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Making Home
When it comes to the special projects in our home, it had to be creating a dining space that took the most “Rip work!” We wanted the dining space to have a look and invitational feel to it like what you’d experience in an old southern antebellum home that’s been…
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“Yet Hates…”
Yet hates … (1 John 2:9) I can remember the day I was sitting on our sofa at home, study Bible in my lap and coming to 1 John 2:9. I just couldn’t breeze on over to verse 10 because of these two words that stopped me right there –…
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Because God is Always In Control
Susan called. Because God is always in control. Susan Marquez is a freelance writer. She called one day wanting to write an article about our personal home renovation. She said her editor wanted to spotlight a home for their holidays publication without focusing on decorations, but traditions…not on “another…
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Joy Restored
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy…,” John 10:10. Definition of the word “steal” – take (another person’s property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it. So, when Scripture says the thief (Satan) comes to “steal,” he can NOT take what we inherited…
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Apostasy – The Great Tragedy of Professing to Following Christ, Yet … Not
Many people profess to follow Christ, yet don’t display the fruit of that confession in their lives. Others leave the faith altogether, some after years of church involvement. This is apostasy. Apostasy, from the Greek word apostasia, means “a defiance of an established system or authority; a rebellion; an abandonment or…
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Love Keeps No List of Wrongs
“Love keeps no record of wrongs.” Some Bible translations says, “Love thinks no evil.” The word literally “thinks no evil” is the Greek word logizomai. And that word is an accountant’s word; it literally means “to keep a mathematical calculation.” It is the word that is used in a ledger…
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