Built to do God’s work

We own an exercise bicycle.  It’s in my storage building/workshop.   All of its parts are intact.  They’re all there and none are broken.  It should work fine.  I do use it.  I hang an extension cord on the handlebars.  It sits close to my table saw and sometimes I balance a board on it while […]

Jesus reigns

At the end of the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, he tells us about the power God exerted when he raised Jesus from the dead and seated him on his throne.  Picking up at verse 21, Paul wrote that Jesus has been exalted “far above all rule and authority and power and […]

Weird church names

Some church names are just weird. I guess they weren’t really thinking ahead when they chose what to call their church – or they drank too much communion wine.  I once saw a sign in east Texas for “Little Hope Baptist Church” – some but not much “hope for glory” (Colossians 1:27) apparently.  Here are […]

Jesus and rattlesnakes

True story. Name changed. 45-year-old Joe was hunting in the mountains of California. He climbed to a ledge on the slope of a rocky gorge and raised himself to look onto the ledge above.  He caught a movement to the right.  It was a rattlesnake.  The snake struck and just missed Joe’s right ear.  However […]