Romans 11 (Airports)
November 10, 2019 In my work as an attorney, sometimes I have to look at older documents. In this case I had, we knew our client wass owed money. But here’s the problem: the only copy of the signed contract that we had was a…
Romans 11 (Not the Ref)
November 3, 2019 So today we have two fancy terms and one fancy dress. Raise your hand if this dress is white and gold? blue and black? About equal percentages see it both ways. Now in real life, the dress is blue and black. But…
Romans 9 (Justified by Faith)
October 27, 2019 When you have a third kid, you don’t worry about the things you used to with the first kid. JP has a Power Wheels F150 pickup truck; this is one of those plastic toy cars you can drive around the yard. And…
Romans 9 (The Potter and the Clay)
October 20, 2019 Every time I go up North I’m struck by this billboard…Do you know it? It’s on I-75: Do you know where you’re going? I can answer the question for myself, and the answer is—no I probably don’t know where I’m going which…
Romans 8 (Blow Out Candles)
September 22, 2019 In his book The Gift of Forgiveness, Charles Stanley tells the following story: “One of my more memorable seminary professors had a practical way of illustrating to his students the concept of grace. At the end of his evangelism course he would…
Romans 7 (Tug-of-War)
September 15, 2019 When I was in elementary school, on the last day of school, we’d have a field day, and the field day ended with a pretty weird tradition, if you think about it; the tug-of-war. This is where you take two groups of…
Romans 6 (Allegiance)
September 1, 2019 Writing a will is something I have had the privilege of helping people with, and also something I’ve done myself. For many people, it’s an easy task; but for many people, it’s very difficult and time-consuming. Did you know that the law…
Romans 6 (Bangs, Wire-Rimmed Glasses, and a Poofy Scrunchie)
August 25, 2019 “Better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.” I’ve heard it more than once in the church. What that statement is getting at is actually a huge theological question: if we, ask Christians, believe in God’s grace, what incentive is there not to…
Romans 4 (Signed, Sealed, Delivered)
August 4, 2019 Every year for our anniversary Dan and I go out to a nice restaurant. We rarely go there, in fact one of the only times we ever go there is our anniversary, so much so that the waiter—usually the same guy every…