God, who am I to teach a Bible class? Who am I to speak to that person about Jesus? Who am I to put myself out there, to take a leadership role, to take a stand against sin….? I’m nobody.

Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.I Corinthians 8:1-2 One of our family’s favorite movies, the 1995 A&E version of Pride and Prejudice, has a line…

Then Job answered and said: “I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!Job 16:2 Have you ever been offered comfort by someone who tried too hard to help you make sense of it? Sometimes we just need other people to hold our hands and weep with us. I’ve often heard cautions about…

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”Isaiah 1:18 I admit it– I’m a nerd. I didn’t always love school, but I did, and still do, enjoy certain kinds…

[Abraham] did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. Romans 4:20-21 I know there are plenty of people who don’t believe in God or heaven. I want to say…

Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness. Psalm 112:4a Have you ever had to find your way in absolute darkness? (Foreshadowing: I might also have begun with the question, have you ever done something really dumb but there was no turning back and the whole time you were asking yourself how you got…

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.I Corinthians 3:7 In Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost, four suitors go to great lengths to woo four ladies, only to have their efforts thwarted in the end. This play is unusual in that it operates as a…

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.I Chronicles 29:11 Recently while sharing a meal with some families…

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.Hebrews 10:14 Not long ago my sister and I met up in Florida to spend a day with my daughter in college there. It was the end of her sophomore year and she had invited us to come and watch her in a…

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.James 1:2-4 I’m no fisherman, but I do know that it requires a lot of patience. I’ve only been…