On Wednesday, I’ll likely be tested on my professor’s definition of religion which reads as follows: Religion derives from the haunting realization of ultimate powerlessness in an inscrutable world, where each person harbors the unquestioning and irrational conviction of the possibility of gaining mystic security by somehow identifying one’s self with what can never be known. He...
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. –1 Corinthians 6:11 I do not know all of the Savior’s reasons for choosing the woman at the well. I know that His revelation...
We’re now into that part of John’s Gospel where things are turning against Jesus. In John 13 just before Jesus dismisses Judas to go do his dirty work of betrayal, He quotes from Psalm 41. As I was reading Psalm 41 tonight, I started to imagine that I was Jesus reading that Psalm, and...
You never know when you’re going to see someone for the last time. I last saw my brother Tom who I wrote about in March about a month ago before leaving for Africa. The day we were flying back last Sunday was the last time he was able to come to church. He crossed the...
Well, my little story made the cut. Look for me on June 4. Dear One Year Life Verse Contributor: Well it took a while, but the edited manuscript for The One Year Life Verse Devotional has gone to the typesetter. Phew! Attached is a single month of the manuscript — the month that includes your contribution....
Susete and Nela both wrote short notes to me before we left. Brother Paul translated Susete's note for me. It reads: My dear Sister Bi: When you return to your land of America, I will not forget you because I will not forget you being here in Cape Verde. I'm not going to stop going to church....
Sometimes the best preaching is the kind where all I jot down is quotes straight from scripture because there's not much "filler". That was the kind of message Paul Sr. preached Sunday morning. I've got about two whole pages of scripture and no fluffy stuff and nothing I don't know where to find in...
Paul Pritchard Sr. left us with a series of challenging questions early in the trip: - Are you in? (In Christ, that is)- How far are you in?- Are you faithful?- Do you love the Lord?- Are you a disciple?- Are you getting others in? Mrs. Cynthia: "There is a certain type of person God is looking for."...
In one of the classes at one of the high schools, we finished handing out the Bibles just as the kids were going to a break. So I got to talk with Carla and some of her friends. Communication was a little difficult, but at that level of education some of the kids know a...
