I remember going to the grocery store with my daughter, Aubrey, when she was 10 or 11 years old. I wore an old Cincinnati Reds t-shirt and a pair of red cotton shorts, white socks, and white tennis shoes. As we got out of the car and started walking side by side, I made my […]
Week 30 Mission |
Week 30
Daily Reading
2 Thessalonians 3:1-5Science assumed that the expansion of the universe was slowing. After all, matter’s gravity should be reigning in the outer limits. The assumption was wrong; the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate due to the impact of dark energy and dark matter. Dark energy and matter cannot be seen or measured, but […]
Week 30 Character |
Forgiven
As William neared the end of his life, he struggled more with the idea of forgiveness than he ever had. Forgiving the mistakes of others was not his challenge. Frankly, he had come too far in life to worry about those grudges anymore. After all, no one was perfect. The challenge was forgiving himself . […]
Week 29 Study |
Mature Enough?
Some believers simply grow old in Jesus instead of growing up in Jesus. The epistles are intended to help us grow up in Christ. They function as the biblical and practical theology of the Gospels. The lessons of the recent past have come from two of the four prison epistles (Ephesians and Philippians). The next […]
Week 29 Application |
A Ripe Old Age
It takes the same letters to spell “I’m mature” and “Immature,” but there’s a big difference between the two outcomes. Cheese matures. So do savings bonds and life insurance policies. But what does it mean to be a mature person? Is mature merely a nice-sounding euphemism for old and outdated? The Greek term for maturity, […]
