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An Unfortunate Name
If you want to give your child an unfortunate name, I’d go with “Sylvia Pamela Risk.” That way every time she’d call someone on the phone, they’d not answer due to being called by S.Pam Risk. [You may now chuckle.] This gets me thinking on the reality of names. Throughout time there have been unfortunate…
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Discipleship is returning the weights
Discipleship is returning the weights to the rack. Recently I started attending a gym, trying to get back into a rhythm of good exercise. As everyone knows, this is an uphill battle. While your mind tells you that it’s a good thing for you to be lifting weights, your heart wonders if it might be…
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Snakes!
I love looking for places where Jesus tells a joke in Scripture. Because of the language differences and the 2000 years of time passing, it can be a very difficult venture. But one area where I feel like Jesus uses humor in getting his point across is in Luke 11:9-13. 9 And I tell you, ask, and it…
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Genealogies
So what’s your family background? I always think it’s interesting when I see people doing the DNA and genealogy trees to discern aspects about their personalities today. It’s usually like 23% French, 14% Swedish, 3% etc. The funniest part is when people get thrown for a loop by some small percentage of who they are…
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Open Tabs
Ever find yourself with a zillion open tabs on your browser, or with over a thousand unread emails in your inbox? For my partially obsessive personality, I get a bit overwhelmed when I see all the open tabs. “What if I will need to access the info on that page?” “What if I forget the…
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Where Did All These Cats Come From?
I knew a woman who did not own a cat. By itself, this statement shouldn’t make you curious. However, consider that this woman routinely had 20+ cats in her backyard every evening. The cats swarmed in the neighborhood and continued multiplying. The problem was so bad that animal control had to come to the house…
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Old Pine
I was honored this past week to officiate the funeral of my grandfather, William Obed Gillum, or as I knew him, Grampy. It was a joy-filled message celebrating his humor, his kindness, and his constancy. And over everything else, it was a privilege to point all present toward how Jesus was visible through his life.…
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Skymall
Anyone remember Skymall magazine? Man, what a trip that was. I always enjoyed picking it up and dreaming about what possible world could need a dog-tanning bed or a cola warmer or a life-size Sasquatch garden statue. There certainly was no end to their creativity in selling useless junk. And yet, the very presence of…
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David’s Last Giant
In 2 Samuel 21:15-22, we read about King David’s last expeditions against the giants at Gath. The CSB version calls them “descendants from the giant of Gath.” It is likely that these four giants described in the passage are in the lineage of Goliath. I had never considered it before, but Goliath was not the…
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