A friend and I decided to meet up for lunch on our college campus one day. I could hardly wait. I was bursting at the seams with an overwhelming eagerness to share some information about a mutual colleague. Mind you, it was the type of information I would not dare share if the person about whom I was speaking was present. I’m pretty sure Webster would define this as gossip. Nevertheless, they were not present and I just had to tell somebody what I had come to know! We sat down, got our food, Continue Reading
Give It Up
(If you're reading via email, click here to listen to the audio version of today's post.) In Daniel chapter 3 of any Bible, you will most likely find a heading that reads something like this: The Image of Gold and the Blazing Furnace. This is the story of King Nebuchadnezzar and his proclamation that at the sound of the music all the nations of Babylon were to “fall down and worship the image of gold” that he had set up or be thrown into a blazing furnace. There were three Hebrew men who Continue Reading
All Things
(If you're reading via email, click here to listen to the audio version of today's post.) “…And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28). “All things”? Can you think of some things from which you don’t anticipate any good coming? Perhaps the death of a loved one, struggles with addiction, a troubled marriage, depression, the loss of a job—the list could go on and on. Yet, here it is in scripture, Continue Reading