Archive for July, 2008
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008Romans 13: “The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber….the night is nearly over; the day is almost here.”
Averette had a rather bazaar Aunt Lois who had been married to her husband Bruce for over 50 years. When he died it became my task to help her make burial arrangements. […]
Excuses
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Luke 14:18
“But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’”
Jesus tells a parable in Luke about a certain man who prepared a great banquet and invited many guests. At the time of the banquet he sent his […]
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Numbers 6:26 “The LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.” ‘
John Knowles wrote an incredible book entitled A Separate Peace. The book opens in the late 1950’s. Fifteen years after graduation Gene Forrester returns, obviously successful, to his elite prep school. Gene remembers his experience at school in 1942 during World War […]
A Passionate Life
Monday, July 28th, 2008Matthew 16:13 “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
Jesus took the disciples to Caesarea Philippi. He wanted to be alone with them and in almost retreat setting he asked, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” Some of the disciples said various things but Peter answered with great passion, “You […]
The Charade
Saturday, July 26th, 20081 John 5:13 “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.”
There is a classic preacher’s story about an older lady whose house was lushly appointed. She had white carpet on the floor and damask upholstery in her […]
The Sad Spell
Friday, July 25th, 2008Jeremiah 6:16 “Stand at the crossroads and look.”
A young father was on the beach as Averette and I passed. He had two little girls who were wild with excitement and a baby of indistinguishable gender in his arms. His plight was he needed his girls to straighten out a beach towel so he could […]
Layers of Friendship
Thursday, July 24th, 20081 John 4:11 ”Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
Howard’s End is a book written by E.M. Forrester that deals with the interaction of three families. I’ve read the book many times and have enjoyed the writing and the story. Forrester, I found to be a great storyteller. What […]
The Slime
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Luke 7:34
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and “sinners.” ‘
When we were in Atlanta, my wife overheard a conversation between two older ladies who were sunbathing at my daughter’s apartment complex. One lady asked another about the […]
A Great Place to Make Mistakes
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Ephesians 4:7
“But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.”
Mrs. Wedgeworth had no children but she taught my elementary boys class at my home church. We would grind up chalk under our feet and as she would walk through the class we would see how much chalk we could get […]
The Constant Gaze of God
Monday, July 21st, 2008Mark 10:38 “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.”
The story of James and John takes place between Jesus predicting his death and his triumphant entry into Jerusalem. James and John came to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we […]