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Romans 14:13-16 (15) Unaware that mischievous men were entering the town\’s General Store the small town was fast asleep. They moved furtively through the store bent on their devious task. The price tags on the merchandise were switched one after another. A riding lawnmower was now priced at $13.95. A fur coat was priced at

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Disciplined Freedom

1 Corinthians 10:19-23 (23) Disciplined freedom.  In the early stages of the Iraq War, the accepted method for Navy Seals to collect and cataloge evidence in the battlefield was to ransack a building, smash furniture, tear down curtains to uncover hidden weapons and so on.  US Navy Seal officer Jocko Willink did not believe this

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The Separated Life

2 Cor. 6:14?18 (17) Their daughter was eating her breakfast.  Dad was reading the paper.  Mom was making more waffles.  The little girl stared into the depths of her glass of orange juice and said, “Daddy, Jesus is God, right?”  “Yes, dear.”  “And Daddy God lives in my heart, right?”  “That’s correct, honey.”  She was

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The Cold Shoulder

2 Thessalonians 3:3?6 (6) Are we to give some Christians the “cold shoulder” in order to show our disapproval of their actions?  The context of this letter lists some contributing factors that led to the instruction in 2 Thessalonians 3:6 to withdraw from those causing discord.    1) Some were disorderly, 2) Some walk contrary

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Called to Condemn?

Romans 16:17?20 (17) I knew a man who said that his calling in life was to spot people in the church who were teaching false doctrine.  What he was good at was spotting people in the church who disagreed with him.  Too often his conflicts were over matters of semantics or concerns that had no

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The Great Divider

Luke 12:49?53 (51) Francis Bernardone was the son of a wealthy cloth merchant.  His father had dreams of his son being a soldier.  Proud of his son, he was sure that Francis would rise quickly in the military ranks.  His problem, however, was that Francis kept going to church to pray, asking for God’s guidance. 

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My Hiding Place

Psalm 119:113?120 (114) George walked into a photography studio with a framed picture his girlfriend Helen had given him. He was so pleased to have it he had decided to have it  duplicated. In order to do this the employees of the studio had to remove it from the frame. In doing this, the studio

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