Did you spot a co-worker or cashier this week with what looked like a smudge of dirt on their forehead? If you didn’t grow up in a Christian home, you might not recognize the symbolism. A friend of mine once saw a woman at work coming out of the copier room with a smudge on…
Read moreThe Gospel According to Frank
We welcomed a new life into our family this week. I’ve been blessed to become a grandfather for the third time. Reflecting on the calendar, I realized it was exactly one hundred years ago that her great grandmother and namesake was born, the last of ten children! Sadly our littlest one will never meet her…
Read moreEven infants are sinners
Nothing seems more innocent than a cooing newborn baby. All the promise of life with none of the baggage. Yet the foundation of “original sin” infects even these precious ones. Genesis 8:21 says: “every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.” Likewise Romans 5:12 says “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered…
Read moreThank Joseph for the enslavement of the Jews
We all know the history of Moses freeing the Jews from Pharaoh’s evil enslavement. But did you ever wonder how they came to be slaves in the first place? Genesis 47 catalogs the spiral the Jews experienced during the seven years of famine of which Joseph (not Mary’s husband, Joseph of the coat-of-many colors fame)…
Read morePeople went to heaven before Jesus
The empty tomb and the hundreds of eye witnesses to Jesus walking the earth for 40 days after coming back from the dead testify to his overcoming death. His accession to heaven shows Jesus returned to whence he came (yes, I said whence!) Blinding Saul on the road to Damascus shows Jesus can act upon…
Read moreAdam and Eve were Vegetarians (or perhaps Vegan)
“I give every green plant for food” Gen 1:29
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