"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Matthew 5:16 KJV Crazy is taking two young children to a restaurant and trying to enjoy a meal.My daughter refuses to take her two-and four-year-old...
"Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a...
"Don't be flip with the sacred. Banter and silliness give no honor to God. Don't reduce holy mysteries to slogans. In trying to be relevant, you're only being cute and inviting sacrilege." Matthew 7:6 (MSG) Jesus hits the point when He makes the above statement in His...
"Ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me." John 15:27 (YLT)Last Sunday at church, I ran into a very skinny man named Willy. His hair was all gone, cheeks sunken, eyes rolling in deep dark sockets, breathing in short labored puffs. In other words,...
"Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, 'Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. And he laid his...
"With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all." (Acts 4:33 NIV)One thing that was soon impressed upon me as a new teacher is that in schools, we cannot testify about...
As a teacher, I wanted to make a kingdom difference at my school. Nothing I did, however, went anywhere. My students had fun and they learned well, but how could I reach my colleagues and my students with the good news of the gospel? Why did all of my efforts “go...
