If you’re following Mark Robert’s daily bible reading chart for 2021, today you begin reading Leviticus for the next 9 days.
Are you getting excited yet?
This is a book often skipped in Bible reading charts. With its many details of sacrifices, religious rites and prohibitions, it’s easy to get bogged down and miss the point for 21st century Christians. Continue reading
Filed under Holiness
By age 12 he was playing the French Horn. By 15, he was performing professionally with the great Jazz musicians of his era. He was the first black musician to break the color barrier in Hollywood as a composer. He’s earned 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend award in 1991. And he achieved notoriety for composing the score of The Color Purple.
However, Quincy Delight Jones Jr, who will turn 87 in March, has suffered a lot of trials in life. He’s been married three times. Endured an emotional breakdown. Survived two brain surgeries. And once faced a life-threatening surgery for an aneurysm. The surgeons said his chances of recovery were 1 in a 100. But he beat the odds.
Following this last operation, he was asked, “What have you started doing differently?” Continue reading
Filed under Passage To Ponder
Max Lucado, a prolific author and the teaching minister for the Oak Hills Church in San Antonia, Texas, spoke last week at a virtual service for The Washington National Cathedral, a prominent Episcopal church.
His appearance was opposed and generated an online petition signed by 1,500 people demanding the National Cathedral rescind the invitation. Why? Because of Lucado’s view on traditional marriage. Furthermore, they claimed he “has inflicted serious harm” on the LGBT community. Continue reading
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“Most of us think of risk as a negative situation we should avoid,” writes David Jeremiah in his book, Forward.
“But risk is a part of life, he observes, and it’s a big part of faith. Not every risk is worth taking but if you’re too overwhelmed by fear to correctly assess a situation, you’ll miss many opportunities for growth, increased strength, deeper faith, and success.” Continue reading
Filed under Reaching Forward Series, Word of the Week
The cross is the universal symbol of Christianity.
However, the cross as it’s seen in houses of worship, grave markers, and worn as pieces of jewelry, may be romanticized and glamorized in a way that detracts from its original meaning and spiritual significance.
In fact, the cross may be used to represent something contrary to the principles and precepts revealed in Scripture. Continue reading
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Good morning from Pompano Beach,
We’ve been blessed to enjoy sunshine and 80-degree weather here, while much of the country is suffering from cold, snow, and ice.
Tomorrow, I’m preaching at both Sunday AM services at the Northside Church. It’s been a pleasure to be with these brethren again and enjoy time with our life long friends Steve and Theresa McAllister. The real highlights of our travels in the past 33 months have not been so much the places we’ve been or the sights we’ve seen, but the new friends we’ve made, and the old friends we’ve enjoyed reconnecting with.
Monday, we’re leaving and heading back to Citrus County, where we have a very exciting week ahead. But more on that in a later post.
Filed under Weekly Recap
Today’s list is adapted from “Not Even A Hint” by Joshua Harris. It speaks to the deception of sin.
If you’re missed some of the previous 25 “Friday’s Lists To Live By” click here for all past columns.
10 LIES ABOUT SIN Continue reading
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Our six-year-old grandsons, Roy and Miles, are studying math in their Kindergarten classes this year. And they’re excited about their new found skills.
They’re learning to count everything. Puppets. Toys. Bears. Cars. People. And money. They’re doing addition and subtraction.
One day we picked up Miles from school and he proudly announced he knew the answer to 100-90. We, then, offered him some other “difficult” math problems which he enjoyed solving. Continue reading
Filed under Life
In a 2014 sermon, Steve Malone asked “What do the following have in common?”
• 90% of homeless and runaway children
• 63% of youth who commit suicide
• 80% of all rapists
• 85% of children with behavioral problems
• 71% of all high school dropouts Continue reading
Filed under Passage To Ponder
“The message of the 2021 National Prayer Breakfast,” wrote Bob Smietana of the Religious News Service, “can be summed up in the title of a book by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Prize-winning South African cleric: No Future Without Forgiveness.”
The National Prayer Breakfast, held on the first Thursday in February, began in 1953, during the Eisenhower Administration and has been attended by every President since, was held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading
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