While on a walk just now, I saw the strangest sight: a guy riding bicycle … while smoking a cigarette. And the thought that immediately hit me was “Man, that DOESN’T FIT!” Smoking a cigarette and riding a bike just don’t seem to go together, to put it mildly. Likewise, sin DOESN’T “FIT” in a […]
I’ve mentioned in past posts that one of my favorite activities is taking long, several-mile, multi-hour walks as those have been and continue to be some of my sweetest “alone times” with the Lord, just thinking about and listening and speaking to Him about all sorts of things: His Word, the Bible; praise items and […]
I don’t think I’ve ever done a “(somewhat) deep dive” on something other than the Bible… but I’m doing so in this case (and likely others in the future) of a song because it’s so full of, so overflowing with biblical truths (as per the Bible verses in parentheses below), not just beautiful music and […]
Children have long sought the attention, audience, and approval of their parents… but like never before in my lifetime, and alarmingly, parents now seek their children’s. And friends literally live for their friends. (Or, in the comparatively new age of all things digital including Facebook, their “friends”.) Students for teachers. Mentees for mentors. Congregants for pastors. […]
I think that this fourth follow-up post in just the past few weeks alone will be sufficient to properly press the point and bring it home: one never, ever knows for sure when one will cease to exist in this earthly realm and slip into eternity, into one’s eternal destination where he or she will […]
In the two prior “Follow-up” posts published in recent days, I wrote this: “In the previous post I mentioned the thousands of people who simply showed up to their office on September 11, 2001, and four college students in Idaho who simply went to sleep for the night and three in Virginia who simply boarded […]
In the “Follow-up #1” post published just a few days ago, I wrote this: “In the previous post I mentioned the thousands of people who simply showed up to their office on September 11, 2001, and four college students in Idaho who simply went to sleep for the night and three in Virginia who simply […]
In the previous post, which itself was a follow-up to the preceding “While You Can” post, I added to the list of people who passed into eternity without notice, likely without much if any recent consideration that the end of their life on earth would come to an end anytime soon. As I noted, that’s […]
The previous post was titled “While You Can”, which listed several examples of people who thought they had much, much, much, much, much more time to live, to take care of their eternal destination, to confirm a “reservation” for Heaven or Hell forever and ever. And just last night ten people simply went to their […]
It’s so common. Because it’s just human nature to think, to presume and assume that we have a lot of time yet to live, so much so that it’s virtually impossible to even begin to imagine the world without us in it. This deception is one of the devil’s most dangerous – and successful – […]
