No matter what your aspirations are in life, indeed, no matter what you want to do in your life…HEED THESE WORDS: Aspire to be a surgeon! It’s in the Bible, and Jesus tells you that it is best for you! Be a surgeon! Oops, gotta go, they are paging me…..”Paging Doctor Jan, Pa
Very often we don’t recognize our influence on others. Other times it is crystal clear. As parents we have a deep influence on our children, both in teaching them as well as in their observance of our actions and interactions with them and others. As followers of Christ, we have a very similar
You will notice that verse 44 and 46 is not here in most modern translations. This is a good time to explain why. If you are a “King James is the only authorized version” person, It would do good to ask why verses were left out instead of flatly proclaiming that other versions leave out
Sometimes our zeal overshadows our reality. While in the Army I took my first job as a Squad Leader in a Decontamination Platoon at Ft. Benning, Georgia around 1986. I knew very little about the equipment my platoon and my soldiers were using. In my zeal to “direct the show”, to demonstr
I have seen that when something is given away for free that it often has little value to the receiver. Helloooooo! That makes sense; there was no cost involved therefore it has little value. I have a friend dealing with a deep sin (actually quite a few friends), and they want to get clean using the
A friend of mine asked me today about the story in the book of Matthew in which Jesus drives the demons out of two men and into a herd of pigs who all go over a cliff and die. In the end, the townspeople all tell Jesus to leave. In Matthew 8:34 we read, “And behold, all the city came out to me