Jump Start # 3721
Jump Start # 3721 Acts 8:2 “And some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.” Stephen was dead. His cut and bloodied body was carried by brave brothers who buried him with tears from broken hearts. Just a few pages later, James, one of the apostles is executed by Herod […]
Jump Start # 3720
Jump Start # 3720 Hebrews 9:27 “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this comes judgment.” It was a sunny Saturday morning. Tons of things to do, but I was sitting in a funeral home. I knew the person who had passed away. Decades ago, when I was […]
Jump Start # 3719
Jump Start # 3719 Mark 14:8 She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial. It was an all too familiar story, repeated so many times before. A family that has been part of a congregation for more than a dozen years, meets with the preacher after services one Sunday morning. They tell […]
Jump Start # 3718
Jump Start # 3718 Psalms 32:3 “When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.” I love how honest, open and even raw the Psalms are. They often reveal things that we feel, but we’d never admit them. The Psalms do. Our verse today was […]
Jump Start # 3717
Jump Start # 3717 Matthew 25:14-15 “For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves, and entrusted his possessions to them. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his […]