TiBlanc was one of the poorest kids in his Haitian village. The house his family lived in had no electricity, no running water, and no bathroom. Every night he put cotton in his ears to keep out the bugs. His mother, Carole, knew a school janitor who saved the students’ leftovers to feed to his […]
As part of a larger poem, William Ross Wallace wrote, “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” A fitting tribute to mothers. But what about the God who rocks the whole world? Can we trust our souls to him? And speaking of “rocks” (a different nuance), our text today […]
Baseball slugger Willie McCovey died last year. I felt sad when I heard the news, even though he played against my favorite team. Tall and lanky, with a smooth left-handed batting style, McCovey (nicknamed “Stretch”) played first base for the San Francisco Giants. One humid summer night when I was a boy, our family went […]
Our preacher told us how in one meeting 10,000 people accepted God’s offer of forgiveness. Send me to the masses, Lord. I was tired of one-on-one evangelism. However, instead of going overseas my wife and I pioneered a church in Las Vegas. We drew crowds; we didn’t build a congregation. I thought of our effort […]
Scripture beautifully gives us analogies that reveal what God wants us to understand about life, relationships, and our walk with him. Recently I was intrigued as I studied what it means for Jesus to be the shepherd of our souls. In John 10, he used the example of a shepherd that cares for his sheep […]
