Jesus didn't actually voice that little truism about three fingers pointing back at me whenever I point one at somebody else. But his parable about the log and the sawdust gives the same warning.

Love my enemies?  Love the atheists, the jihadis, the angry left, the race dividers, the America haters? You can't mean it, Jesus. (Click Title)

"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," said Job in torment. Was the man a fool, a fanatic, or a saint? (Click Title)

Our votes for elected leaders matter, of course, but it matters far more that the Father has made his Son "head over all things." (Click Title)

Think how much more spiritually winsome is the humility of adoption than the pride of birth. (Click Title)

"Let no man despise thy youth," Paul encouraged Timothy. No one ever gets too much encouragement. Who needs some from me today? (Click Title)

Jesus said he only came to call sinners, not righteous people. So that lets you and me off the hook, right? (Click Title)

Christians with reckless abandon and unstoppable compassionate have gone way out of their way to get me God's help. Time to pay it forward. (Click Title)

"If you will, you can make me clean," said the leper in desperate faith. "I will, be thou clean," Jesus replied, and it was so. But is such healing still available here and now? (Click Title)

Eliphaz and Job's other well-meaning friends were too full of themselves to fish in the deep of his desperation. May my model today be Peter kneeling before Jesus. (Click Title)

By God's grace Saul of Tarsus, confessed blasphemer and persecutor with blood on his hands, became the Apostle Paul, great and good. That shames my self-deprecation into silence. (Click Title)

Marianne, John, Frances, George, Wilna, Marc, Mort, Patty: what an endowment of hunger and thirst for righteousness I have from these parents and grandparents of mine. (Click Title)

As when a sky-full of fighter jets are scrambled to rescue a single downed American pilot, our God puts all his mighty arsenal at the summons of a believer's desperate appeal. (Click Title)

Polls say Americans are a very unhappy people right now.  It's 2-1 or even 3-1.  This election may attest it but won't begin to solve it.  Happiness comes from what we worship, not how we vote. (Click Title)

A friend who came late to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, marveled to me at how many believers had passed up chances to evangelize him. Paul's conversion story in Acts 26 convicts me on that. (Click Title)

In Jesus' greatest extremity of need on the cross, he prayed the Psalms.  Shouldn't I be doing the same each day? (Click Title)

Our country in these times isn't so different from Samaria in ancient times.  And therein lies an opportunity. (Click Title)

August takes its name from the Roman emperor who ruled in Jesus' time. Today's readings convict me about what ruler I really obey and exalt. (Click Title)

With kids heading back to school, Father, make me an eager learner on this day too. Not like the king who under-claimed your bounty or the fisherman who denied knowing you. (Click Title)