Taste is a mind-blowing marvel of engineering we take for granted. I recently taught my three teens a kitchen science course that introduced me to amazing aspects about taste I’d never known. I hadn’t grasped how taste combines all five senses, not just taste buds and smell. What would a potato chip be without hearingContinue reading “Tired of Tasting a Cardboard Jesus?”
Category Archives: General Epistles
Looking Unto Jesus: From Abel to Today
What faith did saints in the Old Testament have? We believe in Jesus. What did they believe? The Lord has been showing me how their faith wasn’t all that much different than yours and mine today. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside everyContinue reading “Looking Unto Jesus: From Abel to Today”
More Precious Than Gold Pt. 2: Perception Matters
Remember how Paul fell off his horse on the Damascus road when he encountered Jesus? Only one thing. Neither Acts nor Paul said anything about a horse. Yet this pervasive perception is imprinted in our imagination of this scene. If we see through rose-colored glasses, the world looks rosy, right? Looking at the glass halfContinue reading “More Precious Than Gold Pt. 2: Perception Matters”
More Precious Than Gold Pt. 1: Teaser Intro to Peter’s Epistles
I’ll never forget my first whitewater rafting trip. Standing at attention in my blue life-jacket and yellow “brain bucket,” our young adult river guide warned of everything that could go wrong. Most ominous was the “High side right!”—an emergency scramble onto the raft’s right side (outside the raft) to avoid rapids swallowing us up. AsContinue reading “More Precious Than Gold Pt. 1: Teaser Intro to Peter’s Epistles”
Jesus is Our Better Hope
In its most exalted glorified sense, Scripture presents hope not as an “it” or a thing. Hope is a Person. Hope has a name: Jesus. In fact, the writer of Hebrews points to Jesus as the Better Hope. So the previous command is annulled because it was weak and unprofitable (for the law perfected nothing),Continue reading “Jesus is Our Better Hope”
