When I was a kid my cousins and I would go camping up in Indiana. A lonesome train whistle could often be heard in the distance as we lay there in our sleeping bags peering up at the stars that twinkled through the trees. I always wanted to be up there with the stars in the sky and wondered what it
AMAZING JESUS: I often find the wisdom and teachings of Jesus utterly amazing……..treasures found in a lost world. Today I want to share one of those deep thoughts that changes the face of what we do. In the Gospel of Mark, chapter 6 the apostles are gathered around Jesus and they take of
This woman stopped at a red light and her car dies. She frantically turns the key over and over trying to get the car started. The light turns green and the car simply won’t turn over. A man in the car behind get’s angry and starts laying on the horn. Of course her blood begins to boil a
So this man parked his BMW on the side of the road, and opened the door. Suddenly, a speeding car appeared from nowhere, hitting the open door and ripped it off of his car. The man was outraged! When the police arrived at the scene, the man whined, “Officer, look what that person did to my Bee
Okay, now let’s really take a close look at the Genius of Jesus! The original audience would not be hearing what Jesus was saying as “some lofty ideas about being nice”, they would have seen what Jesus was saying as strong, tangible ways of subverting evil, of pushing the darkness of the
Again, I find this wisdom of Jesus amazing…the truth-upside down! Jesus tells us next in Matthew 5:41 “If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.” Yeah, right! The first way to deal with cruelty is retaliation, the second is passivity….but Jesus shows a THIR