It’s college football season, and on any given Saturday, there’s going to be plenty of flags thrown on the field for taunting. After catching a touchdown, some wide receiver is going to lean over his defender lying on the ground and shout something mocking or insulting and then do a dance right in his face.…
Apostle Paul says in Philippians 3:1, “Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.” Paul’s call to “rejoice in the Lord” is more than a feel-good phrase. It’s a command grounded in reality. He’s not offering shallow advice…
Sometimes I picture life like a boxing match. It’s often a real battle of pugilistic intensity. We’re often dodging punches and countering attacks. We’re just trying to make it to the bell. But every boxer is helped if they have a good person in their corner. They provide crucial insight, offer much needed encouragment, and…
Since 1874, Christians have been singing this tune based on today’s text in Philippians 2:14-15. Over the years, our brothers and sisters have loved these lyrics and melody: Sing them over again to me, wonderful words of life; Let me more of their beauty see, wonderful words of life; Words of life and beauty, teach…
For today’s devotional thought, I want to share a poem with you someone once wrote called “The Grumble Family.” There’s a family nobody likes to meet; They live, it is said, on Complaining Street In the city of Never-Are-Satisfied, The River of Discontent beside. They growl at that and they growl at this; Whatever comes,…
I want to read to you one of the most powerful statements about Jesus Christ. It comes Philippians 2:9–11, which says, “Therefore, God also highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven…
“I Am Second,” have you seen one of those videos? It’s a social media movement over the last 15 years or so where people sit in a big white chair and share candid insights into their journey with Jesus. These are stories of transformation, faith, and resilience. It’s usually celebrities like Tony Dungy, Phll Robertson,…
School is out for the summer, and that means it’s about time to get going on some road trips for summer vacations. There’s nothing quite like loading everybody into a vehicle and heading out on the open road. Oftentimes, the drive itself is part of the fun. But one of the things that can make…
The 19th-century French author and politician Victor Hugo once wrote, “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”That quote resonated with Winston Churchill, who loved to quote it such that it is often misattributed to him. But, what a true saying! A person who never stands for anything…
“Brother Ben, why in the world has the Lord let me live this long?” That was the question I got almost every time I visited one of the sweet shut-ins of the church I pastored in Tennessee. Ms Willette was in her late 80s and early 90s while I served that church and had outlived…