Against the Odds

Read Psalm 53 … When Elijah met the “450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah” (1 Kings. 18:19) at Mt. Carmel he was certainly going against the odds. Elijah even says at that time, “I alone am left a prophet of the LORD” (1 Kings 18:22) as he stands and mocks the false …

That Which is Perfect

Read 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 … 1 Corinthians 13 is nestled between two chapters on the presence and use of spiritual gifts. In Chapter 12 Paul reminds the Corinthians that the Church is a body and as such, not all the parts have the same function or the same prominence, but the manifestations of the Spirit …

A Little Exaggeration

Read Psalm 53:1-3 … Perhaps on a visit to a restaurant a friend might say, “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!” Or maybe it’s been a long day, maybe longer than most, and the remark is made, “I could sleep for a week!” For the most part when these types of statements are …

We Don’t Get a Vote

Read 2 Corinthians 11:2-4 … Around this neck of the woods the “Vote for _________” signs are starting to pop-up like the perennial weeds that overrun a yard every spring, or the flu everyone seems to get regardless of the yearly inoculation. Really, those signs do serve a function – getting a candidate’s name in …