“Look at this fog!” I exclaimed to the children as we drove to school. “You know, starting in August we can count the days of fog and predict how much snow we will get this winter.” In response to this announcement I received incredulous stares. A friend of mine from Ashe County used to keep …
Several years ago I was hiking with a group in the Holy Land in a place called Golan Heights which bordered Lebanon and Syria. We were hiking near in the Dan nature reserve where there used to be ancient Canaanite and Israelite cities. The path here was rocky, filled with stones and water flowed EVERYWHERE. …
It was probably dead. It had grown sluggish before its skin peeled away to reveal the tough substance beneath. It stopped moving, encased within a hardened shell. To any passerby this lifeless object was barely noticeable; a minute inanimate object within a busy world. But one day that changes. The ‘dead’ thing shudders, it trembles …
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us …
The technician deftly maneuvered the wand across my stomach as the grainy image on the screen blurred in and out clarity. “Hmmm,” she murmured, smiling as she tried another angle. “Let’s take a look at that little hand there buddy.” After a pause the image crystallized further. “There we go,” she continued. “So it looks …
So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. 4:26 Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 4:27 and do not make room for the devil. 4:28 Thieves must give up stealing; rather …
Driving to the first church this morning the world was draped in a thick fog. As I drove through the twists and turns of the mountain road a man in his garden caught my eye. It took me a moment to discern as to whether it was indeed a man or merely a scarecrow propped …
My second week at my field placement we had two deaths the same evening. As my pastor was at Annual Conference, I went to be with the families and help them in planning the service. One of the deceased left behind a husband to whom she had been married to for seventy-three years. Visiting him …
The church where I am serving this summer is one primarily composed of several large families. Like other rural churches, the saying goes, “Make sure you don’t talk bad about one person to another as they are likely to be related!” Indeed I’ve had a time sorting through the tangled web of familial relationships, learning …
“Oh, did baby bump her head?!” the lady cooed as she passed my daughter in the store. I smiled at the lady. When she continued to ask about how my daughter, Eliana, got such a terrible bump on her forehead, I explained that it was just a birthmark. The bluish-tinted knot on her forehead sprinkled …