We all need a Superman. Adam Shaffer is one of them. Tall, dark-haired, athletic. Add handsome. I did not see his superhero gear, but under his Clark Kent suit…who knows? Adam is a funeral director. That’s really the wrong name for professionals like him who truly show the world super…
Read MoreEven if you are not a father (and yes, ladies, this is obviously you!), or if you have had experiences with your dad and are thankful this past Sunday is over, consider what it would be like if every day were Father’s Day. Professing Christians do celebrate their Father every…
Read MoreJoseph, her fiancé, was a good man and did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly. — Matthew 1:19 Here’s something obvious. Good dads are not perfect dads. Yet the Bible is filled with good—not perfect—dads. Take a closer look at a good…
Read MoreProverbs 9:10a says, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” Who fears the Lord? That’s a good question these days. Conservative theology and its practitioners are quiet on this these days. Liberal theology and its practitioners don’t often want to walk or talk here. A great number…
Read MoreThere was a crowd sitting around Jesus, and someone said, “Your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you. Jesus replied, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers? Then he looked at those around him and said, “Look, these are my mother and brothers. Anyone who does God’s…
Read MoreNo one has escaped a hard knock from a hard person. In Ezekiel 12:2, the prophet tells us what should not surprise us: rebellious people have ears that can’t hear, eyes that can’t see, and hearts that can’t understand. I know a man who passes his neighbor’s house every day….
Read More“So the Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath.” Mark 2:28 Our American culture endorses a full schedule. We have a pervasive spoken and unspoken mindset that if you’re busy you’re better off. For example, let a kid have chill time? What? No. They have to be doing…
Read MoreIf we grieve fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, and we should, let me ask you something I’d like you to see and answer through a lens of nationalism. Why are we not acknowledging how churches have lost so much? If we publicly and privately mourn and remember our nation’s defenders…
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