“Steven, you got a telephone call,” my dad announced one Saturday morning. He was oddly excited about it, eager to tell me the whole story. I had just crawled out of bed, a college student coming in the kitchen at 9 o’clock looking for some cereal. “Why didn’t you wake me up?” “Well, he calledContinue reading “DISCIPLESHIP: Grow With G.R.A.M.P.S. Deuteronomy 2.”
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Soup Bowls or Toilet Bowls? 2 Timothy 2:20-21
Every house has so many bowls, “some for honor, some for dishonor.” In the House of God, what sort of bowl do you want to be? According to Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy, it is up to you. “Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels ofContinue reading “Soup Bowls or Toilet Bowls? 2 Timothy 2:20-21”
Don’t Give the Devil a Foothold.
Have you heard the old calypso-style chorus that goes, “Shut the Door, Keep Out the Devil, Shut the Door, Keep the Devil in the Night”? If only it were that easy—just lock up before you go to bed and all will be well. But there is some truth to it. If we walk by theContinue reading “Don’t Give the Devil a Foothold.”