From about eight years of age into adulthood, I lived with my mom who didn’t converse much, so I was left alone with my thoughts a lot. I always wondered what it would be like to live in a household with a large family. You would have built-in playmates, and a sister or two with…
I was driving the other day when I saw this sign: Caution Bump Ahead. I didn’t see anything, but my car felt a small bump as I drove over a hard-to-see speed bump. But isn’t that how life is? We go about our day not thinking anything negative may happen when BUMP something does. What…
“One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “’Do you want to get well?’” “’Sir,’” the invalid replied, “’I have no one to help me into the pool when the water…
Stretch out your hand to heal…(Acts 4:30) I am in the thick of a Jewish identity class at school and while doing some required reading, I kept thinking about my own Jewish identity. I laid my book down (more than once) and googled my paternal ancestors. I discovered information I never knew about them—some good,…
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9, NIV) Yesterday, Steve Thompson, our campus pastor at Gateway Dallas, preached a powerful message on being sons and daughters…