Glory, Glory, Glory

Those Corinthians were recalcitrants. (That’s one of my current favorite words.) When Paul wrote 2 Corinthians, he was having trouble in pretty much every conceivable area of his life. The  influential Jewish leaders, who were the self-professed enemies of...

That I May Know Him . . .

In Philippians 3 Paul expressed his longing to know the treasure that was his Savior. . . . Few can draw a word picture like that master wordsmith, C.H. Spurgeon. This is only slightly adapted from a sermon of his, painting a word picture of what it means to desire to...

Fresh Bread, Fresh Words

I’m studying Philippians . . . I memorized it when I was in college. I’ve taught Bible studies on it. I studied it in-depth nine years ago. And I pull the bread out of the fridge and sniff it, surreptitiously checking for little white spots. Why did I...

He’s Still the Hiding Place

This summer my two teenagers and I had the privilege of spending some evenings listening together to Corrie Ten Boom’s The Hiding Place (mending clothes, brushing the dog’s matted fur as we listened) and then watching the video. It had been maybe a few...