When Herod saw that the wise men had tricked him, he was furious. So he gave an order to kill all the baby boys in Bethlehem and in the surrounding area who were two years old or younger. This was in keeping with the time he learned from the wise men. Matthew 2:16 Growing up I became used to making new friends, new schools, new towns and new homes. This was the life of a [...]
The Lord will give up his people until the one who is having a baby gives birth; then the rest of his relatives will return to the people of Israel. Micah 5:3 The Christmas season is one of the most happy and sad times of the year. People are excited about a number of things at Christmas, the plans for family and friends coming to visit, the thoughts of what gifts to give those we [...]
I can remember when I was a kid; a hot summer day with a couple of friends doing the stuff the boys do. In the backyard on a carpet of green grass which now had become our Colosseum. Gladiators clad with armour - dirty Chuck Taylors, jeans and t-shirts standing our ground, arms outstretched, crouched and ready, waiting for the signal. Someone yell - Ready, Set, GO...... With grunts, groans and the boasting of our adolescent strength, we [...]
We've all heard the phrase "tough love", maybe even experienced it in our adolescence as we clumsily navigated through some rebellious patch of our life growing up. Hopefully you are not still stuck there. It can be painful both as a parent and a recipient of tough love. I however, have been experiencing tough love of a different nature lately and this morning took a moment to meditate on it. What I'm dealing with is [...]
Can't we all just get along! This expresses how I feel so many times when I read what people write about the church and others get their two cents worth in how they think. I am all for a free thinking society, but we cannot lose sight of where the real battle lies. Neil Cole in the below suggested article uses the words "friendly fire", to which I would suggest is not so friendly when [...]
