In the race of your life: keep your eye on the prize
Winning. Competition. Trophies. Prizes. Those things all held real sway for me as a young athlete. I wanted them. And, many times, I got what I wanted. I was successful, often a winner. Much celebrated and complemented. When I became a Christian I came to see myself on the winner’s podium, and I didn’t necessarily […]
Writing it up wraps it up
You make the hypothesis, design the experiment to test the hypothesis, do the experiment, make observations, record them, evaluate your results and draw conclusions. Oh yes. Then you write it up. And if you’re DaVinci, father of experimental design, you write it on any scrap of paper handy, forward or backward, left-handed. Well, I am […]
Strength presents itself in the doing
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 This scripture is on my mind because my daughter is “doing the talk” for the Fellowship of Christian athletes at her school today and this is ‘her’ verse. Not sure whether she chose it or it was chosen for her. Anyway, this morning […]
Giving the leftovers to God
I’ve always had a bit of trouble with this story told in both Matthew and Mark’s gospels of a Canaanite woman who pleads with Jesus for help to save her demon-possessed daughter and ends up begging for even the crumbs from His table. (Matthew 15:22-28) A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying […]
Crying foul in a fair game
From our earliest days, the injustice of getting less when someone else gets more stings. What if our eternal future rest on whether we can let this go?