Dedicating Our Days to God
When the Temple in Jerusalem was built under King Solomon, he dedicated it first with a lengthy prayer, followed by a massive number of sacrifices: “King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.” – 2 Chronicles 7:5 There is no record of Solomon and the people considering the loss of all this livestock as a…
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Wisdom, “in Quotes”
Corporate training booklets are great sources of interesting quotes. I came upon this one from Greek philosopher Socrates (470 to 399 B.C.) in a training session on presentations: “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” This makes a lot of intuitive sense because if people can’t agree on something as basic as definitions, it’s difficult to move forward. However, I think there’s something even more fundamental – closer…
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Daily Readings for May 4 – 10
Fellow travelers: For those looking for a Bible reading plan, each week I post 2 chapters to read per day as a main reading plan, and for anyone who wants to read the whole Bible in 2026, I’ll post the extra chapters to read that week. The main readings will include nearly all of the New Testament, plus Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Prophets, and a few other Old Testament books.…
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Redeeming the Time
Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca said that “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” Unlike other resources, time cannot be replaced. If I waste a dollar of my income, another dollar can be earned to replace it. If I waste a minute, it’s gone forever.…
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The Body of Christ is Irreducibly Complex
Among the various camps in the debate between creation and evolution is a set of ideas called intelligent design (ID). A key part of ID is “irreducible complexity,” a term that comes from the book Darwin’s Black Box, by Lehigh professor Michael Behe.[1] In short, irreducible complexity argues that evolution by chance, without an intelligent designer driving it, is unreasonable because the multiple systems in a complex organism like a…
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Time for a Change 2026 (4 of 9)
Fellow travelers, Are there small changes you can make to improve your life? Are there small things you are doing that are harmful to you? Can each of us build a better “liturgy” for our lives over time, step by step? Can we accumulate victories in small battles that help us fight bigger ones? Over time can we better love God, ourselves, and others? Instead of making New Year’s resolutions…
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Loveless Words
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” – 1 Corinthians 13:1 The church in 1st-century Corinth was divided over spiritual gifts, particularly the gift of speaking in tongues. The apostle Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 13 as a gentle rebuke to the misuse of gifts and the arrogance that came from competing over them. …
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Render to God
The phrase “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” which Jesus spoke in Luke 20:25 is likely a familiar one. I had a friend in college who worked at Little Caesar’s pizza, and he showed up at Bible study with some pizza from there one night. We had agreed to split the cost, so when he walked in he said “render…
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The Work of Our Hands
Psalm 90 is the only one out of 150 that was written by Moses. Psalm 90 is also the first in book 4 of the Psalms, which some say carries many of the themes and ideas from the 4th book of the Pentateuch, the book of Numbers. That book tells of the consequences of Israel’s disobedience and grumbling on their journey to the Promised Land. The nation of Israel spent…
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Daily Readings for April 27 – May 3
Fellow travelers: For those looking for a Bible reading plan, each week I post 2 chapters to read per day as a main reading plan, and for anyone who wants to read the whole Bible in 2026, I’ll post the extra chapters to read that week. The main readings will include nearly all of the New Testament, plus Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Prophets, and a few other Old Testament books.…
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