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An Unlikely Palace
One of my goals each year is to read through the Bible. I try to do it in different ways, however, and this year I am reading the One-Year Bible, which gives a passage each day from the Old Testament, the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs. I like using this reading method every few years to help me not “jump ahead” in my mind, like I often do when reading cover-to-cover. Anyway, yesterday I made a mistake in my reading, but it caused me to do a lot of thinking. I was reading Mark’s account of the crucifixion of Jesus. I try to read slowly and basically “mentally sound-out” the words…
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Thursday Hymn Reflection: "My Jesus, I Love Thee"
[NOTE: This post continues our Thursday Hymn Reflections. If you would like to suggest a song for this series, please leave a comment. We still have over 30 songs lined up for this series at this time, but we will try to do them all!] My first reflection on this hymn has always been its simplicity. There are very few songs we sing that are easier to “pick up” and sing. The melody is easy to follow and the harmonies are very straightforward. That is so fitting for this song! In a song that simply praises the Son of God in simple language, it is only fitting that the music…
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Meeting a Hero
We live in the “celebrity sightings” era. Magazines and websites are covered with pictures of celebrities doing everything from performing on stage to eating lunch. Personally, I feel for those who have to go to remote places to truly “get away” (even though the public still knows where they are going!). Then there are those pictures of when we meet a hero. Maybe it’s the autograph of a sports star that you’ve long admired, or a picture you post on Facebook of you and a hero. Sometimes people will go out of their way to figure out the schedule of a hero just to see him or her in the…
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"Why?"
Children sometimes ask questions that are far deeper than what they think. We listen to a lot of Bible-based music in our, especially when the children are with us. We listen to Hannah’s Hundred CDs so they can learn Bible verses (there’s nothing like hearing a tw0-year-old singing, “Thou shalt not commit adultery!”) and we listen to a lot of groups like Hallal, One Voice, and ZoeGroup. Recently, I was in the car with the kids while Leah was running into a store and we were listening to a CD. A song came on about Jesus dying on the cross. Mary Carol asked a very basic question at first: “Why…
