Isaiah 60:1-6 {Prayer} “And going into the house, {the Magi} saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh” (Matthew 2:11). Gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Those are some pretty expensive gifts. But add onto…
Matthew 2:1-12 {Prayer} If you have ever put up crown molding in your house and went to the extent of coping the corner pieces together, you know how difficult of a task that can be. First off, if you don’t know what coping is, it is a woodworking technique of shaping the end of…
John 6:16-21 {Prayer} Back in 2017, a newspaper reporter in Galveston, Texas, published a story about Chirpy the parakeet. One minute Chirpy was peacefully perched in his cage and singing a song. The next minute, he was sucked in, washed up, and blown over! Let me explain. It all began when Chirpy’s owner…
John 6:1-15 {Prayer} As a kid I remember watching TV when, out of the blue, an announcer would break in with these words … “This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test.” Then, for what seemed like forever, there would be that loud, ear drum piercing sound. Somewhat…
John 5:1-17 {Prayer} Johnny Lechner is finally moving on. Actually, the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater forced Johnny Lechner to move on. You probably know someone who extended a 4-year college program into 7 or 8 years, but Johnny went beyond that. Johnny had been working on a 4-year degree for 12 years. Yes,…
John 4:46-54 {Prayer} Team Hoyt consists of a father and a son. Together, Dick and Rick Hoyt race. And they race a lot. They have completed 64 marathons, 206 triathlons, 6 Ironman triathlons and 204 10K runs. Since 1975, these two have crossed over 1,000 finish lines. They’ve even crossed the United States. …
John 2:1-11 {Prayer} For Christmas, Faith had been asking for this pendulum clock. Now, this clock comes with probably a thousand different pieces. Some of them the size of my head, some of them about the height of an eraser on the end of a regular pencil. To say that “some assembly is required”…
Romans 6:1-10https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%206%3A1-10&version=NIV
Matthew 2:1-12 {Prayer} As with most Christmas hymns, we pretty much have only the first verse of them memorized. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, however, by only having the first verse memorized, we can easily miss out on the depth and the true meaning of the hymn. Take “What Child Is This”…