Mike

Guest posts from Mike

Imitate God

“Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.”   As a dad I look back on years when I was keenly aware that my son …

Imitate God Read More »

The Smell Of Smoke

Have you ever sat by a campfire and found, that even hours later, the smell of smoke had permeated your clothes?  It lingers, it clings and others can smell it too. Often, as I live in a world that reminds me of Sodom and Gomorrah, I’m aware that the smell of the culture has clung …

The Smell Of Smoke Read More »

The Most High God

“Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;     wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons;     he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise     and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things;     he knows what lies in darkness,     and light dwells …

The Most High God Read More »

Suicide

This morning a friend asked me to address suicide and my thoughts on this topic. It’s a very personal topic for me. My niece took her life several years ago and the thoughts of her are still near to all of us.  Suicide leaves questions for those have chosen it and for us left behind. …

Suicide Read More »

The Key To Everything

Christ is the key that unlocks the mystery of history. Poetic, isn’t it? The quote above, in part, is from a German theologian.  After writing more than 17,000 pages on the Bible and Christ these are his concluding thoughts. The key to everything is Jesus Christ.  If you leave him out the box remains locked, …

The Key To Everything Read More »

What Will We Do?

Panic. You’ve felt it, haven’t you? That sudden sense that everything is out of control… …that the world and the problems you face are overwhelming, too big, too much! You may have actually said it at one time, “What will I do?!” It was a question one man asked one morning when he realized what …

What Will We Do? Read More »

And Others….

Faith is an essential part of the Christian life.  We came to God by faith, we live by faith, all we have is the result of faith. Faith in God is at the very heart of the Christian experience. There is a chapter in the bible that speaks exclusively of men and women who lived …

And Others…. Read More »

The Terrible Sin

We are becoming a world with its fist in the air to God. The anger, resentment, rebellion of our world is growing.  We see it in the wars, the riots of our cities, the parade to demonstrate this or that. All around us our world is coming apart at the seams.  At the core of …

The Terrible Sin Read More »

Friends

Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got.  Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.  Wouldn’t you like to get away?  Sometimes you want to go  Where everybody knows your name,  and they’re always glad you came.  You wanna be where you can see,  our troubles are …

Friends Read More »

Mundane Faithfulness

 Lately I’ve been following the last journals of Kara Tippetts and her husband, Jason, at Mundane Faithfulness.  It’s a blessing, a grief, a joy, a sorrow….even though I don’t know them personally they have opened their hearts and lives as she has neared her own death from cancer. The reality of death and its heavy …

Mundane Faithfulness Read More »

Insulting Muhammad

I’m a Christian. I believe that Jesus is God in flesh, the only savior, the only provision of God for man’s sin. Islam would tell me I have committed shirk.  It’s the unpardonable sin of associating anyone with God. I get that.  But I truly believe the bible teaches that Jesus is God, the second …

Insulting Muhammad Read More »

Fearsome Days

These are scary days we live in.  ISIS/ISIL beheadings weekly, wars breaking out on every continent, earthquakes, floods, plane crashes, Ebola, zombies, politicians (or are those last two the same thing?), and the fear inspiring news!  If you are tempted to fear, our culture and the news will help you. These are fearsome days.  Every …

Fearsome Days Read More »

Failure

I don’t know if you have ever felt it, that feeling of complete and total failure.  It’s one of the worst feelings I have ever experienced. Many struggle with it.  Jobs lost, marriages ruined, relationships destroyed, children alienated.  All of these make us aware of our weakness and failure to do those things well, to …

Failure Read More »

Little Things

Proverbs 11:1 The Lord detests the use of dishonest scales, but he delights in accurate weights. Have you ever wondered why a verse like this is in the bible?  Have you ever read something and really didn’t know what to do with it?    This is a short verse, a pragmatically simple one, that reveals God’s concern for even …

Little Things Read More »

Slavery vs Trust

You would think, after reading the bible as many times as I have, that I wouldn’t see much new, but every day I see something I had never noticed before.  It constantly amazes me.  How does God do this?  How does he put so many insights about life and faith in the stories of the …

Slavery vs Trust Read More »

On Being Nobody

I live in a time and place in history when fame and popularity are important.  In fact, if we can’t find fame from the media we create it through Facebook.  With enough friends reading all about us and our lives we have a sense of value, significance, a feeling that we are somebody. Often I …

On Being Nobody Read More »

Barren

God does his best work with barren things. He built nations from barren wombs. Sarah, Abraham’s wife, was barren and yet from her God built a nation of millions! Elizabeth was barren and from her came John the Baptist. In Exodus 17 God led his people into a barren desert and in a place where …

Barren Read More »

Scroll to Top
Verified by MonsterInsights