obedience

-----      “I am not happy, and life is short, so I need to go after this one chance at happiness,” he said, explaining why he was about to…

     God wants us to be good.  When we obey his commands, life is better for ourselves and those around us.  That is why God gives the commandments in…

Saint Nicodemus, with Jesus ----------      (...continued)  John records no further questions or comments by Nicodemus in this conversation, but I think we can safely assume that Nicodemus liked…

     The wireless mic I wear every Sunday when I lead worship makes me nervous.  A couple times I have forgotten to turn it off after the service, and…

-------------------------------------------- It is you alone who are to be feared.  Who can stand before you when you are angry?  From heaven you pronounced judgment, and the land feared and was quiet, when…

     The 1998 movie Saving Private Ryan begins with an old man walking through a military cemetery.  It is the American cemetery at Normandy in France where the thousands…

--------------------------------      The Bible teaches us how to live not only by giving commandments, but also by the listing of important moral virtues.  In Galatians 5:22 Paul wrote: The…

-----------------------      (...continued)  The old Christmas song says Santa Claus “knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows when you’ve been bad or good; so…