After His Own Kind

Some people take labels on the surface and believe they can live up to those labels, just because they are connected in a loose and superficial way. Take for example, this group of folks who claimed to be part of a special people. They had spent their lives collecting sayings and giving the impression of […]

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What Was Lost Is Found

She had ten silver coins. She had ten silver coins because she needed ten silver coins. It had not come easy to get those ten silver coins. She worked tirelessly to get one silver coin after the other. And now, she had finally got the tenth coin. Now – finally – at last – she […]

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Is He Welcome Here?

How do you know when you’re made to feel welcome? What do you look for? Jesus was made to feel welcome whenever he visited a place called Bethany. He knew he would be welcome there because of three people – Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Martha evidently took a leading role in hospitality. She knew that […]

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Who Rules? You Can Trust God

Trust is a remarkable quality to exercise. Giving someone or something a great deal of confidence in a given matter or area of life to produce a desired outcome is not something to belittle or easily dismiss. It’s amazing seeing that exercise of trust when a small child will play with a parent and fall […]

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Set Free From … Procrastination

Fear is a great way of preventing good. One of its many guises is procrastination. Operating under the motto, why do today what can be put off until tomorrow, it is skilled and accomplished in creating reasons and justification for avoiding what is for our good, for our progress and for the process of peace […]

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