Posted in Weekends Are For Kids on November 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One week from today, there are going to be approximately 11,000 other people running in the St. Jude Marathon and half marathon in Memphis, Tennessee. Here’s a startling representation about the reason why we are running to support St. Jude’s:
You can see from above that the survival rate for my son Joshua’s type of cancer, [...]
Posted in Bible Study on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are a few verses that most Christ followers at least sort of know by heart. Verses like John 3:16. Or Hebrews 11:1. Or this one:
“Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18).
It’s a strange passage coming from a guy [...]
Posted in Theology on November 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Kingdom People:
The account of such flagrant ungratefulness on behalf of nine lepers, healed graciously by Jesus, seems shocking to us today. How could only one of ten come back and say “Thank you?”
Yet, in Jesus’ day, the absence of vocal thanksgiving was not uncommon at all. In fact, thanking someone for hospitality or for [...]
Posted in Bible Study on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ephesians 1-3 has some powerful statements in it. Those chapters are about how God is bringing everything together in the universe under the head of Christ. And that the Christ-follower has been given immeasurable blessings in the heavens, welcomed in to God’s ongoing drama for the sake of the glory of His Son.
But chapter 4 [...]
Posted in Weekends Are For Kids on November 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Joshua’s pretty smart. And he remembers and retains a shocking amount of information. Here’s one example. We were reading his Bible story the other night out of his kids’ bible. It’s not the real Bible, but summaries of stories and books. So we were finishing it, and the summary was about Revelation. And in that [...]
Posted in Leukemia on November 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
You might remember the heartbreaking post a few weeks ago when we had been given tickets to the Tennessee Titans Monday night game. Joshua got sick. No game. No tickets.
The Leukemia Society called again.
Lord willing, we’ll be watching our 10-0 Titans battle Brett Favre and the J-E-T-S, Jets! Jets! Jets! this Sunday at LP Field.
It [...]
Posted in Bible Study on November 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
You can read yesterday’s post here where I began to pose the question about meekness, and what it means.
Today there’s not so much a definition as a picture from the Bible.
There’s a story about the meekness of Abram in Genesis 13. For a while, Abram and Lot had been traveling together, but because of the [...]
Posted in Bible Study on November 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
That’s not a characteristic we talk about too much. In fact, I’m not exactly sure what it means, but I was curious about it since lots of newer translations don’t even translate the beatitude “Blessed are the meek” any more. Instead, they translate it as “humble” or “patient.” But I think there is something essential [...]
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Posted in Ministry on November 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Last night, our family went to Target to fill our Operation Christmas Child shoebox. This is a great organization with a great mission:
Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the Good News of God’s love. Since 1993, more than 61 million shoe [...]
