Sticks Stones and Words

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. This may not be fashionable anymore. But this was the phrase that children were taught to combat school yard insults. The little phrase is true in the sense of physical cuts and bruises but a number...

Jesus IN-Volved

There are things that don’t make any sense without Jesus. In Acts chapter nine there is an amazing moment like this. In fact, there are several amazing moments in chapter nine of Acts. The one I’m referring to involves a Christian that has likely fled from Jerusalem...

Carrying Your Cross

The Bible list many things that are asked of the believer, either in the representative narratives like Abraham or Moses and in the form of direct requests. None it seems to me is so misunderstood or often misdirected as the following, “Take up your cross and follow...