A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. Mahatma Gandhi Text: John 20:15-7 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who is it that you are looking [...]
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Psalm 34 – “Taste and see” + a little Sweet potato pie
A Psalm of David A quick look at Psalm 34 and we can see that David supplies us with useful information about how to overcome, or how to be delivered from our fears. He tells us that this is a 3-step process. The first step is to acknowledge our fears. Yes, we would like to appear to [...]
Klout™, Kred™ or Christ
Scoring services If you’ve not spent much time online you have likely not heard of the services called Klout or Kred. In case you don’t know what these are, they are services that score people in social media who use Twitter, Facebook, write blogs and use other elements of social media. This serves as [...]
How to Get Your B**t in Gear this Weekend
“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” ~ Don Wilder and Bill Rechin Silly Songs Sometimes songs pop into our heads for no apparent reason, and they are hard to shake. I have found recently that writing seems to help bring this to an end. My problem song for today is, [...]
Who Deserves our Best Gifts?
In the past, we have spent a little time in the past talking about the prophet Micah and how the “children of Israel” were trying to short-change God. As I was writing that series, I was struck by our general lack of giving of our best everywhere, every time and to everyone. Why don’t we give our best? We [...]
Now that You’ve Got Goals, What Happened to Your Priorities?
Setting Priorities The people of God in Malachi’s time (Malachi 1:6-14) were putting a very low priority on what they gave to God by way of sacrifice. They were trying to take the easy way out, the low road. This will sound almost too ridiculous, but one of the ways they did this was [...]
Hookers for Jesus: Giving our Best
Hookers for Jesus Many, many years ago when I was a freshman in college, there was a group of young ladies doing religious canvassing downtown. They were called “Hookers for Jesus.” They had little pamphlets that they passed out during their recruitment. The founder of the group was a former call girl, Annie Lobert, who [...]
8 Things You Can Do for Your Depression
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Jalal ad-Din Rumi This is hardly meant to be an exhaustive list, but a starting point for finding your way through, or helping someone else. 1. First, Ask for Help. - [...]
Where is God when We are Depressed? : The Bible and Depression
The Bible does not try to hide the fact from us that actual depression exists. This is good news. As many of us have been lead to believe, we are not victims of some strange new malady. There are those who would blithely point to their favorite text and tell us that all we [...]
Did Jesus Get Depressed? Do you?
A clarion call went out last week, a friend of ours was in trouble. This reminded me of all the people I have lost in my real life, and those we have lost in our online universe to clinical depression. Realizing that there are so many more people suffering all around us every day, [...]
Tweeting, because…. God wills it!
What does the Bible say about tweeting? Actually, the Bbible is quite specific about social media (SoMe). Starting out I am usually an early adopter of technology, but for some reason, I have been a little slow with getting into and onto Twitter and FaceBook. I have been on Twitter for less than a [...]
You’re Fired!!! : The Biblical model
We are at the Garden of Eden. Eve has been successfully deceived. Adam has, who knows? God has shown up and flushed them from their hiding place. And, everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else for blame. God’s clearest word to them was one of condemnation, but He does not leave them without hope. [...]
Men in Black, Leadership and the Garden of Eden: Taking Responsibility
We all want to be the “best of the best of the best.” (“GIJoe” and Agent J, “Men in Black”). Everybody wants to know how to stand out as leaders, and rightfully so. Your life is complex, and there are many areas in which you are responsible for leading “your”people. And, you are [...]
Parental Responsibility
Now we know The kids, Adam and Eve, are in the Garden of Eden. They have eaten the forbidden fruit. As painful as it might sound, Adam was probably not too far away while Eve was having her interaction with the serpent. There are a number of things that Adam did not do. He, Adam, [...]
Martina G. McGowan
