Wake up!

I’m so physically getting Mark 14:32-42 right now.  Did the time change for Daylight Savings time, or was spring break over and it was time to go back to work or school?  Peter, James, and John had the simple task of staying in a specified location and keeping watch...

Dare to be Different

Doing things on our own terms will most likely not end the way we thought or hoped for.  The Israelites would mess up, have shown to them what they’d done wrong, and decide “Okay, we see we messed up.  Especially after God wants to punish us for what we did wrong.  We...

Who's the wise guy/gal?

Who’s the wise guy? I sure hope it’s you. We often (or used to) hear the words wise guy associated with a smart aleck or someone in the mob.  But that’s NOT the wise guy/gal I’m talking about. In Proverbs 8:10-11 we read, “Choose my instruction instead of silver,...

Be careful what you wish for.

In Numbers 10 and 11 the Israelites were at it again. Whining and complaining was their middle name…God’s “Whining-complaining” People. Moses had had enough of being in charge of all those belligerent people. God took care of it. The Israelites had had enough manna...

Time for a deep cleaning.

Numbers 8:7, “This is what you should do to make them clean: Sprinkle the special water from the sin offeringon them. This water will make them clean. Then they must shave their bodies and wash their clothes. This will make their bodies clean.”   For the Shuff...