I love this clip of Coach Mo Cheeks when he stepped in to save the day of a 13 year old young lady who needed some really quick encouragement. Natalie Gilbert knew her stuff but at this moment in time she lost concentration and stood on the rim of disaster until someone stood in the gap giving her the strength to finish the race. Cheeks reminds me of a great man in the Bible that not everyone knows about but yet is responsible for some of the greatest Biblical…
The Birth of Samuel 1 There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 2 He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. 3 Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD. 4 Whenever…
I have probably been studying God’s design for manhood for well over 20 years now. The first real pick at the subject came during my college years when a friend and I set upon the gospels to learn what we could from the man Jesus Christ. While Jesus is divine, God in the flesh, he was also perfect in his manhood. The text tells us that he got angry with the religious Pharisees, wept over the death of a friend, and got tired after a long day’s work. The author…
I am working the sound board at the back of the chapel service on Sundays. Some help was sorely needed with a number of people transitioning this summer. Its not my strongest ability, but I enjoy the music and the ability to mix the vocals and instruments. The sound board is pretty technical and reminds me of the HAL-5000. I keep waiting for it to zap or yell at me for turning a nob or setting incorrectly…Just kidding. I will get to sing occasionally again, as well. I haven’t been…
Where did the weakness come from? Many sociologists will point to a turbulence in time which we know as the 1960s in America. With free sex came fractured families which lead to countless boys growing up without a dad to lead the way. While such statistical data is something to consider, the real root resides much further back in history. The true problem goes all the way back to our first father, Adam, and his forgetting who he was. What we find in the ancient order of things before sin…