by sworel | Apr 21, 2024 | 2024, Musings
Too often in our culture, things are portrayed as opposing extremes. Everything is either black or white. And when it comes to a Biblical discussion of citizenship, we are often led to believe that we are either all in for country or all in for God. Truth be known, we...
by sworel | Apr 14, 2024 | 2024, Musings
Several years ago, Chuck Swindoll wrote about Bertha Adams, a 71-year-old who died alone in West Palm Beach, Florida. The coroner’s report cited the cause of death to be malnutrition. At the end, she weighed only 50 pounds. When the authorities began to dig through...
by sworel | Apr 7, 2024 | 2024, Musings
In Ephesians 2:10, Paul wrote, “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Many translations translate that key word as “workmanship.” We are created much like a clay pot is made at the hands of a...
by sworel | Mar 31, 2024 | 2024, Musings
The story at Easter time is captured in Eph. 2:4-5, “But because of His great love for us, God who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions, it is by grace you have been saved.” The root word for “great love“ carries the...
by sworel | Mar 24, 2024 | 2024, Musings
In 1499, Michelangelo created a statue of Mary cradling the body of Jesus for a funeral monument of the French Cardinal Jean de Bilheres. It is an extraordinary sculpture depicting the scene right after the crucifixion. Mary is sitting on a rock with the lifeless body...
by sworel | Mar 17, 2024 | 2024, Musings, Uncategorized
Declaring someone to be dead, doesn’t always make it so. In 1937, a Frenchman, Angelo Hays, was racing his motorcycle and crashed into a brick wall headfirst. There were many injuries, and the doctors could not feel a pulse, so he was declared dead. His family held a...
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