THE GIFTS NOT TO BE HIDDEN

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23 NASB) As children, the closer it got to Christmas morning, the cleverer we got on secret missions, searching in the same way that a stranded stranger looks for water in a dry desert land, investigating in the absence of the adults all through our houses, trying to find where...

WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE YOURSELF

“They arrived on the other side of the sea in the country of the Gerasenes.  As Jesus got out of the boat, a madman from the cemetery came up to him.  He lived there among the tombs and graves.  No one could restrain him—he couldn’t be chained, couldn’t be tied down.  He had been tied up many times with chains and ropes, but he broke the chains, snapped the ropes.  No one was strong...