Reading Time: 4 minutes Her flow of blood was twelve years old. Sometime around the birth of Jairus’s daughter a disease that caused her to constantly bleed had come upon this nameless woman. But she was about to experience one of the most unique miracles of Jesus’s earthly ministry. I say unique because, on…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In a recent online discussion I was having, the idea of “God is love” came up, with the intention of showing that a particular doctrine I was holding could not be true, because “God is love.” I’m thankful for conversations like these because they cause me to dig into what…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Do you ever talk to yourself? This is a rhetorical question because I already know the answer. Everyone talks to themselves at some point. You know, the casual mumblings as you look for a lost item, or perhaps the mental continuation of an argument you just had with someone, only…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Singing songs is a uniquely human activity. Yes, I know we say that birds sing as well, but not having vocal cords and lacking anything resembling words, what they do is distinctly different from the songs we sing. And because we are made in the image of God, anytime you…
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was a boy we used to play a game to pass the time. The game was called Twenty Question. You may be familiar with it. The object was to guess the thing the other was thinking of in the span of twenty questions. To narrow the field and…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I sat spellbound as did everyone else in the audience that night. The lights went out and almost all we could see were about two dozen white-gloved hands, seemingly suspended in the air above the stage before us, each holding a drum stick. We were watching an exhibition of military…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The happy major chord is made up of three notes, a first, a third and a fifth, but it’s the second of the three notes that give it its distinctive cheerful sound. Take away the third and the chord becomes ambiguous, neither happy nor sad, it can go either way. …
