PIGEON-LIKE CHRSITIANITY

I recently spent a week in Chicago, visiting with one of my five sons. When I entered the kitchen and looked at the refrigerator, it was like déjà vu. A quick visual audit revealed that were close to sixty magnets collected from all the countries that my son and his wife had visited in recent years. Of course, there were also pictures of their two boys and some of their school work affixed...

RELEVANT AND REAL

“Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all the more, since you see that the Day of the Lord is coming nearer.” (Hebrew 10:25 The Good News Translation) Not including the opening and closing scriptures, aside from this introductory sentence, this Monday Short meditation, for once, really is short, consisting of two...

DROPPING PEBBLES IN THE WATER

“ Set an example for other followers by what you say and do, as well as by your love, faith, and purity.” (I Timothy 4:12b CEV) I sat down at my computer to write on a thought I had about throwing pebbles in the water, small stones, much smaller than a rock that boast by means of its mere size and seems to make a big splash when cast into the water; a splash noticeable for a quick, short...