Matthew 27:24 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” Pilate could have washed his hands till they were raw, Continue Reading…
John 8:14 Jesus answered “… I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.” Did you know one out of eight children in America suffer from anxiety disorders? Where are they finding their identity? Continue Reading…
Luke 12:1 “…Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.” [NIV] Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? How about you? How is your garden growing? Maybe it’s time to look at what kinds of seeds we’re sowing in our hearts. The funny Continue Reading…
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. One of the requirements of my teaching job consists of getting periodic fingerprints. The last time I tried, the folks scanning my prints reported they were Continue Reading…
Mark 10:21-22 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Someone has observed that Continue Reading…
Revelation 2:17 “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.” “Who Continue Reading…
Matthew 16:15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” By the time Lauren Daigle’s phenomenal song, “You Say,” went triple platinum, it became clear a lot of folks were looking for the answer to who God says we are. Are we really loved? Do we truly belong? Continue Reading…
1 John 3:1 “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” “I think; therefore I am.” These words captured 17th century Continue Reading…
John 2:24-25 “Jesus . . . knew all men. He did not need man’s testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.” Cookie-cutter: marked by sameness and a lack of originality; mass-produced. We don’t like to think of ourselves as just a part of the crowd, do Continue Reading…
1 John 3:2 “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” [NIV] “Politics is what we do. It’s not who we are.” I Continue Reading…