Archive for June, 2008
« Previous EntriesA New Covenant
Monday, June 30th, 2008Mark 14:24 “This is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many.”
As we celebrate the freedom of our nation’s birthday on the Fourth of July, we are grateful for the freedom that we gain in our faith. Jesus broke with the old covenant and on communion gave a new covenant […]
A Still Small Voice
Saturday, June 28th, 20081 Kings 19:15 “The Lord said to him, ‘Go back the way you came.’”
Elijah was a 9th century BC Hebrew prophet and reformer. He lived in the time of the evil King Ahab and his wife, Jezebel. Elijah had a striking victory on the Lord’s behalf. As sometimes […]
The Shoe Shine Boys
Friday, June 27th, 2008Matthew 25:35 “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.”
When the Son of Man comes again and all the angels with him he will sit on his throne in heaven and judge all the nations. Matthew 25:31 and the verses following tell who will be with Jesus in […]
If Only I Had Known
Thursday, June 26th, 20082 Corinthians 7:10 “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.”
Lord Northington, who was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in 1765, suffered a severe attack of gout. In that day it was believed that gout was brought about by excessively rich […]
Never Hopeless
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Romans 15:4
“For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”
It seems impossible to believe, but as a small child in the 1950’s I heard my grandparents talk about the Civil War as though it was […]
The Gifts We Are Given and The Gifts We Return
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Matthew 25:14 “Again it will be like a man going on a journey…..
In the movie, Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman as Coach Norman Dale, he takes the basketball team in the small town of Hickory, Indiana, to a championship. Early in the movie there is a conflict between the team’s superstar, Jimmy Chitwood. […]
Do You Want to Get Well?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008John 5:14 “Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, ‘See you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
Jesus was in Jerusalem for one of the yearly feasts. There is a pool that is called in Aramaic, Bethesda. This pool […]
It Could Be Any of Us
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Luke 19:10 “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Last week I did an invocation for Alabama Partnership for Recovery and Reentry. This program, from many different directions, attempts to help the 800 prisoners who will be coming back into Baldwin County next […]
Kudzu
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Romans 4:7
“Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
My Granddaddy almost always saw good in everything. One of the few things he said that was a “blight on humanity” was kudzu. Kudzu had been planted on one of the houses on the farm as an ornamental shrub. Eventually, it took over the […]
The Ponderable Life
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Matthew 27:40 “….if you are the Son of God.”
I’ve read every book and newspaper article in print by Ernest Hemingway. My favorite of his works is For Whom the Bell Tolls, the tragic story of Robert Jordan and the beautiful Maria, set in the time of the Spanish Civil War. Five-hundred […]