My Church Notes

The Spots on Our Skin

A leopard has no sense of self-awareness. It knows maternal instinct while it raises its cubs. It knows hunger when its stomach is empty. It knows the satisfaction of a full stomach after a ...

Many cities have elevated curbs running along the sides of each street. Not only do these curbs serve to delineate where cars may drive and where they may not, the elevated concrete also provides a ...

Pounding the Wrong Peg

There is a common child’s toy that teaches shape recognition and eye-hand coordination. We give the young’un a board with various openings cut into it, and we have her match blocks, or ...

Our TRIP God

For those of us with children, sometimes summer seems to stretch into eternity. If traveling to summer camps and ferrying carloads of kiddos to VBS aren’t enough, how can we stand to drip dry ...

High Yield Accounts

When investing for the future, there are several ways we can go. We can stuff our money in our mattress, and when we go to sleep at night, we will know right where it is. However, that money will be ...

Open Door Reservations

When we throw a shindig, we usually know who we want to invite. It may be our immediate family, the people we work with, or those who live on our street. We may even widen the guest list to include ...

Where Is Our Fairy Tale?

Everyone wants a happy ending. The frog becomes a prince. The knight slays the dragon. The happy couple rides off into the sunset. The cowboy with the white hat always gets his ...

Putting Away the Cattle Prod

Cattle are not generally considered the smartest of God’s creatures. We can’t speak with them, and they do not read sign language. No one has ever received a text from a cow, and performing ...

The Good Flood

The Aswan Dam was built in Egypt in the 1960s for flood control, irrigation, and hydroelectricity. It worked beautifully, holding back a vast reservoir known as Lake ...

The Beautiful Line

We love that which is beautiful. It calls to us, and we want to claim it for our own. A sunset? The choice hillside property with the best view goes for a premium price. A well-designed car? It sells ...

Death to the Infidel

A proper definition for infidel is one who does not believe in a certain line of religious thinking. In Christianity, we think of this as a person without “faith” in the Christ and his death on ...

Ejection Seat Living

In May of 2014, a Harrier jet crashed into a residential neighborhood in Southern California. The pilot managed to bail out of the plane and land safely nearby. No one on the ground was ...

Beyond Our Borders

Years ago travel from the United States into Mexico or Canada was a breezy affair. Proclaim U.S. citizenship, and we were waved on to step foot in a foreign country, free to travel as we pleased ...