Toward the Goal Posts

November 23, 2005

Just in time for Thanksgiving… a lesson about lepers. Not quite the traditional stuff of Thanksgiving, huh? Before we get to lepers, though, let’s think about another upcoming holiday… Christmas. Remember when you were young?…

November 22, 2005

Maybe it’s an indication of where I’m at in my relationship with Jesus (I’m coming out of my spiritual desert), but this year, I find myself listening to Christmas carols earlier than in any year…

November 21, 2005

Ever been in a spiritual desert? You know, those times where your prayers seem to bounce off the ceiling… where nothing you try to do for God seems to work out right… where you get…

November 19, 2005

Malachi provides a good warning for us… think about the quality of our offerings to God. Paul’s passage about living sacrifices fleshes out what we should offer. But just what is it that makes for…

November 17, 2005

Malachi 1:6-10 6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says…

November 17, 2005

Romans 1:20-21, 28-32 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men…

November 16, 2005

1 Thessalonians 5:1-4 1Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the…