All Posts Tagged With: "Illuminations"

post thumbnail

Illuminations – Finding Scrooge in Today's World

A character out of books and movies can sometimes become so familiar to readers and viewers that its name soon works its way into the language as a word that describes someone resembling that character in real life. Such is the case with the principal from Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Ebenezer Scrooge, [...]

19Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Illuminations: Let Them Believe What They Believe

I imagine you’ve noticed already via life’s experiences that God has a way of teaching Biblical truths in the context of everyday living. And coincidentally, His timing is always perfect! For me, the teaching usually comes as a practical application of a lesson I’ve just taught or will be teaching in the next few days. [...]

26Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Illuminations – Seeing Beneath the Surface

How hard can it be, I ask myself, to paint a kitchen once you decide that this time you’re going to hire a professional? That’s all there is to it, right? Just tell ‘em what you want and let someone else handle the job. Well, I recently found out that picking the right color was [...]

31Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Illuminations: God's Sovereignty or Our Responsibility?

One of the more difficult things to do—in my opinion—is to remember while going through a world of hurt that God really is in control. Perhaps the main reason for our difficulty is that we first have to understand the delicate balance between God’s sovereignty and our responsibility. There’s an old story that describes this [...]

31Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Illuminations: Getting Through the Rain

A few short weeks ago, I was sitting in a hotel room in Rangoon, watching the storm roll in from the southwest. The already threatening skies were getting darker by the minute as massive towers of black clouds bore down upon us. It was the rainy season in Rangoon, not the best time of the [...]

7Jul2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued