Let the variety of birds remind you that I value uniqueness. Celebrate who I’ve made you to be: the colors of your personality, the pattern of your life, the song of gifts and talents I’ve given you to share with the world, the habits of goodness I’ve formed in you to impact o...
So what does Yeats mean when he says, “The lion and the honeycomb, what has scripture said?” and then ditches the thought in favor of dismissing a leading contemporary voice of consoling mythos and legends of meaning: “So get ye gone Von Hugel, though with blessings on your head”?
Ken’s children loved his stories, and when he shared them with colleagues at Moody, they urged him to publish. (He’d already published two children’s books.) The first collection of scripture-stories,The Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes(1956),was followed by several more. Then came a...
is obscure to us. Paul could be saying: (1) Don't go beyond the Old Testament Scriptures I have cited in my letter so far, or (2) something like, "Keep within the rules" (New English Bible). We're just not sure. Pointing them to teaching of Scripture makes the most sense to ...
Coming over to us, he took Paul's belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, "The Holy Spirit says: 'In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.'"1 Samuel 19:24Then Saul stripped off his robes and also prophesied ...
I am not going to be surprised by rejection on this medium for being honest and factual about what Scripture says. The most unloving thing one human being can do to another is lie to them, and that includes omitting the whole truth while telling “half-truths.” I also agree that the ...
We hear of Saul (not yet Paul) persecuting the church and personally handing over men and women to imprisonment for their belief in Jesus Christ. The reading from Acts also reaches into the heart of the psalm, though, reporting that in the midst of the persecution, disciples escaped and ...
Paul was out voted by the majority on the boat so they just set off to the other harbor to winter there. The scripture in Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is destruction,” comes to mind here. Have you ever just known something wasn’...
Proofs were not taken from Scripture; rather the emphasis was on God manifesting himself to all human beings through the cycles of life and of the world. Acts 14:11 The strange reaction of the people of Lystra to the cure performed by Paul is a result of local folk...
Could he make scripture—even the non-story parts—more understandable for his children? Ken flipped open his Bible, and his eyes landed on 2 Timothy 2:4. “No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a ...