With the simplicity of click, drag and drop, Jesus exorcised the demons and sent them into the herd of 2,000 pigs who immediately ran down the steep bank and drowned themselves in the sea. Upon hearing the breaking news of the miraculous healing along with the bankruptcy of the BBQ industry, the Gadarene townspeople wereContinue reading “The Unpredictibility of Living with Jesus”
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Jesus stills the storm and He stills the soul.
Mark 5:1-20 tells the story of a miserable man who was kept in the tombs by a legion of unclean, demonic spirits. The spirits trapped him there to torment him continually with the spectacle of death. They cut him off from society and he lived as a dead man among the dead. The “Gardarene Demoniac,”Continue reading “Jesus stills the storm and He stills the soul.”
Man of the Tombs meets Jesus
MAN OF THE TOMBS Bob Bennett © 1989 Matters Of The Heart Music (ASCAP) Man of the tombs He lives in a place where no one goes And he tears at himself And lives with a pain that no one knows He counts himself dead among the living He knows no mercy and no forgivingContinue reading “Man of the Tombs meets Jesus”
Did God Create Evil?
This past week the Lord brought me to a place where I had to answer some questions about God’s relationship to evil: Where did evil come from? Did God create it? So this blog entry is a bit of a digression from what I usually write about. I do care deeply that people see GodContinue reading “Did God Create Evil?”
Encountering a Compassionate Savior
Have you experienced the compassion of Christ? For those afflicted by brokenness, pain, suffering, and sin, Christ brings spiritual wholeness to all who come to Him in repentance and faith. Below you can listen to a message from John Estorge speaking from Mark 1:40-45. Listen to Encountering a Compassionate Savior
A prayer of surrender
Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me: I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I willContinue reading “A prayer of surrender”
Fear constricts the flow of grace while Faith opens its hydrant
I think the tendency of many people, even Christians, is to view God as stingy and holding back the best from us as if God is like a man who is afraid he will run out so he is always thinking about the cost. There is a lot of stinginess to go around in ourContinue reading “Fear constricts the flow of grace while Faith opens its hydrant”
Trusting God when Bad News comes
Have you ever had a friend or spouse approach you with the words, “I have some good news and some bad news, which would you like to hear first?” This is common phraseology in our culture which is sometimes simply employed to communicate an outlook that is mixed with positive and negative elements, but inContinue reading “Trusting God when Bad News comes”
When God doesn’t answer “on time”
Typically when we share our anxiety about a circumstance with a friend, we expect the friend to respond with a similar angst to our situation. After all that’s how we know they care, right? But when a friend responds with nonchalance, we feel that they don’t really love us. Well sometimes we project this sameContinue reading “When God doesn’t answer “on time””
Lead, Laugh, Love 