Many of us get distracted during worship. David, perhaps the Bible’s premier worshipper, offers three ways to focus on worship: 1) acknowledge that God is in control, 2) accept God’s forgiveness, and 3) see God’s work in your life. The following essay explains this plan more fully. The psalm in 2 Samuel 22 appears after […]
[Note: We often cite the description in Isaiah about the suffering servant. I wrote this piece to give us new appreciation and perhaps deeper clarity for this remarkable passage. Harold Shank] The coroner wheeled the body from the morgue to the autopsy room. His assistant readied the instruments, adjusted the lights and turned on the […]
The following piece was written by one of our students at OVU: This Treasure Called Education by Stephanie Corbelli It was only the second day of our trip and I found myself tearing up, but these were happy tears. A few inches away from me separated only by a pane of glass was Handel”s “Messiah” […]
The Wounded Father In his book Finding Our Fathers, psychologist Samuel Osherson tells about a forty-two-year-old doctor who came to him with a problem. His younger brother’s wedding had brought the entire family, including their divorced parents, together in St. Louis. The physician spent most of the time with his mother to the neglect of […]
Maybe you’ve heard about six word stories. Use a half dozen words that tell a story. Here are a couple from other web sites: For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. (by Ernest Hemingway) Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert please. Best friend. One winner. Jealously kills. Driving. Cow in road. Hamburgers tonight. She loved again. I never […]
Everybody is looking for hope. We all want some reason to go on. Every sermon and class and book would do well to offer hope. Recently in a class on Jeremiah, the group dove into chapters 30-32, the book of consolation, where Jeremiah gives great hope. I asked the students to try some creative writing […]