Cain, Balaam, and Korah

Cain, Balaam, and Korah

I want to take a look at a single verse in the book of Jude. But first, we need to set the scene with some context. We don’t go to the book of Jude very often. In the original Greek, it’s only 461 words long, making it the fifth shortest book of the Bible,...
Growth Happens in the Secret Places

Growth Happens in the Secret Places

We forget that, sometimes. It’s easy to think of growth as visible, obvious, easy to point to and say, “There it is.” But it’s not. We see the fruits of growth in others. The byproducts. We don’t see the actual growth, because...
Till We Can See the Sun

Till We Can See the Sun

Before we say goodnight to Prim, Mary and I take turns every evening to sit beside her and have “chat time.” For about 10 minutes, one of us hangs out in her room and talks about—well, whatever her three-year-old mind feels like talking about. Sometimes we...
Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver

Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver

James doesn’t have a lot of nice things to say about the tongue. He focuses on its destructive capabilities, calling it “a fire, a world of iniquity” that “defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by...