I declare April as… Sit-ups & Push-ups Month! “Oh yeah Lee, who do you think you are?” Well, I’m a man who seriously needs to lose a gut and gain some kind of strength. And yeah, I know, you think I should add “this and that” to these two excersizes if I’m really gonna get a [...]

“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. ”  Romans 8:1-2 Found in Romans chapter eight, look how Paul compares living according to the sinful nature to living according [...]

Day 30—1 Peter 1:3-5  3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is [...]

Day 20—Acts 9:1-19; 22:3-21 [Luke’s version of Paul’s conversion to Jesus—Acts 9:1-19]  1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether [...]

“People were also bringing babies to Jesus to have him touch them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. But Jesus called the children to him and said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the [...]

Not all change is bad. Change can be good. For example, if you are in the habit of doing something harmful to your body, then making the change to stop doing that harmful thing would be a good change. Or how about this, what if during your daily reading of Scripture you notice something that [...]

“Stop!  Wait!  I feel uncomfortable!  I don’t want to try something new!”  Let me ask you…  Did Jesus feel comfortable when he overturned the tables in the temple courts? Did he feel comfortable knowing the Pharisees were listening to his every word to see if they could catch him make a mistake? Did he feel [...]

As a Christian, what should I do with Christmas? Should I celebrate the birth of Jesus during this time or not? This seems like a silly question to many, but a very live question for those with a conservative (somewhat orthodox) Christian background. Let me try to explain just a little bit of this dilemma. [...]

Yesterday, while I was walking my dog Brisbane, I noticed in a friend’s yard a tree with a spectacular array of fall colors in its leaves, a tree which i quickly noticed was changing right before my eyes. As I watched the tree wave peacefully in the wind, I observed many of its leaves gently [...]

“It’s the thought that counts!” Really? Is it really the thought that counts? I told my wife the other day that I thought about sending her flowers on the first day of school this year to commemorate her new job. I didn’t send her flowers. Guess what, that thought didn’t count at all! My kids [...]

“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.” Leviticus 19:18 Grudges are like festering boils, constantly irritating a person’s heart, and therefore usually a relationship between two people as well. A grudge at its core is strictly and plainly a [...]

Poor Pharisees. They really have gotten a bad rep, and for what? For trying their hardest to apply Scripture in an ever-changing Rome-influencing and Hellenizing world? All they were trying to do was what was right! Sure, they got caught up sometimes in their bad applications of Scripture. Jesus certainly got on to them when their applications became [...]

Surely everyone who has faith in God shares their faith in some way.  Some people naturally talk about their faith with others without even realizing what they are doing.  The concepts and principles of their faith are so dominate in their thinking and language that they can’t help it from seeping out.  Others map out and strategize [...]

Once upon a time, I married a girl who didn’t like dogs.  She couldn’t stand the smell of dogs. She hated the shedding issues of dogs. She didn’t like the messes dogs made. She said she would never let a dog in the house, ever, “and that’s final!” I tried and tried to change her [...]

“He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation  rock.  When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.”  Luke 6:48 Years ago I went with a group of college students to St. Louis to help flood victims [...]