During the final days of Jesus’s ministry, His disciples approached Him alone. They had questions about the future. (Don’t we all?) They said: “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what is the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” Matthew 24:3. Do you remember His response? Jesus did notContinue reading “When Jesus Talks About the End Times, He Talks About Stewardship. Matthew 24:3-8.”
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“WHERE THE CARCASS IS, THERE THE VULTURES WILL GATHER” Luke 21:34-35.
A peculiar thing happened the day we lost Secret. The magnificent Thoroughbred had been sick for weeks. I saw from the window that morning that her eyes were bloodshot. Then while we talked to the vet, she collapsed. A few minutes later there were buzzards sitting quietly in every tree, where there had been noneContinue reading ““WHERE THE CARCASS IS, THERE THE VULTURES WILL GATHER” Luke 21:34-35.”
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES ARE NOT VERY SPECIFIC. Luke 17:26-36.
The Pulitzer-winning novel GONE WITH THE WIND opens with the Tarleton twins courting Scarlett O’Hara. It is April of 1861, and the 19-year-old brothers have been expelled from the University of Georgia. “It don’t matter much. We’d have had to come home before the term was out anyway.” “Why?” “The war! The war’s going toContinue reading “THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES ARE NOT VERY SPECIFIC. Luke 17:26-36.”
EXPRESSIONS FROM THE BIBLE. John 19:30.
You probably know what it means if I say, “I wash my hands of this matter.” It means I’m not involved or responsible. It comes from Pilate attempting to wash away his own responsibility for the kangaroo-court “conviction” of Jesus. And you probably know the context in which Jesus made famous the phrase, “He whoContinue reading “EXPRESSIONS FROM THE BIBLE. John 19:30.”
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