What does it mean to ask the Lord to send the Wind? Let me give you some examples. Together four eyes peered into the vacant alley of an overcrowded apartment complex. They wiped sweat from their faces as they watched the red sun of a hot day dip below the horizon, only to reveal the white moon of a hotter night. Next door through the paper-thin walls, they could hear a man and a woman arguing abo...
Some of the hardest weeks of my life were spent in an intensive eight week Hebrew course at Princeton Seminary. For those two months, Hebrew was my life. Morning, noon, and night, my time was filled with mastering vocabulary, deciphering grammar, and conjuring up English translations for this very old, very strange language that the writers of the Old Testament used to describe their experiences o...
How many of you remember the movie Duck and Cover? It really wasn't a movie but more of a "short" — just over nine minutes in length. But don't sell it short — it featured a great leading role, Bert the Turtle, and a very catchy theme song:
There was a turtle by the name of Bert
and Bert the turtle was very alert;
when danger threatened him he never got hurt
he knew just what to do ...
He ducked...
"Stupid is as stupid does." So says the now-famous quote from the movie, Forrest Gump.
Nowadays, it would seem stupidity is an epidemic. Just type the words "stupid people dot com" into your internet search engine and you can find loads of websites where people share their tales, like the man who wrote: "My ex-wife once called me at a bar and asked, 'Where are you?' "
Another favorite story is t...
I ordered a new book this week. Hope it comes soon. Because God needs to read it! It's called Your Executive Image. As CEO of all that is, that's Creator, Executive, Overseer; as CEO of anything and everything that matters to you and me, God needs to keep up appearances. And it really doesn't do God's image any good for him to go around calling people "stupid children" (Jeremiah 4:22).
Yet, Jerem...