A few mornings ago I read these words: “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.” (Malachi 4:2) Doesn’t that sound great! Mind you, I have absolutely no personal experience with “calves skipping about from the stall” but the image that came to my mind was my kids’ response after I’ve told them they can have an extra snack, or that we’re going on vacation, or that bedtime has Continue Reading
Sin Is Still Serious
(If reading via email, click here to listen to the audio version of this blog post.) I chose to discipline my daughter the other day for misbehaving. She later came to me and said, “Mommy, I think you accidently spanked me too hard.” In my defense, my soft light hand merely made slight physical contact with the upper part of her thigh. If you ask me, she was just disturbed at what she perceived to be an inappropriately harsh response to her actions. And you know what? Having read Joshua Continue Reading
The Speck and the Plank
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said the following: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye”(Matthew 7:3-5). In this passage Jesus is telling us to humble ourselves Continue Reading