Apr 17, 2017 | Word Among Us
Pay attention…most of us look at the nighttime sky and see a bunch of stars and maybe a constellation or two, but an astronomer sees so much more. It is not because he has sharper eyes, but because he has learned how to pay attention to the position of the...
Apr 14, 2017 | Word Among Us
Who do the crowds say that I am? … Who do you say that I am? We often think of Jesus as the teacher with all the answers. But of the 183 questions that people ask him in the Gospels, he answered fewer than 10. At the same time, Jesus asks more than 300...
Apr 12, 2017 | Word Among Us
Nothing is new under the sun. Over sixty years ago, the song “Que Sera, Sera” burst onto the scene, “Whatever will be, will be.” It is the same note that the writer of Ecclesiastes originally sounded centuries ago as he contemplated the same...
Apr 10, 2017 | Word Among Us
He got up and followed him. What was going through Matthew’s head when Jesus passed by, noticed him, and said, “Follow me”? As a tax collector, Matthew would have been held at arm’s length by his family and despised by his neighbors. His...
Apr 7, 2017 | Word Among Us
Lead me in the path of your commands, for in it I delight. We have all been in situations in which we were being trained for something. Perhaps it was a new job, a lesson in school, or a military commission. In the course of our training, some commands became so...
Apr 5, 2017 | Word Among Us
With the upright is his friendship. Three children gaze at a painting of a ship on the water when they are suddenly sucked into the scene! For th rest of C.S. Lewis’ book “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, the children are no longer standing on the...
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