What God Taught Me Through My Wife’s Cancer

John 1:5 I sat in a cushioned chair beside my wife's hospital bed reading C. S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain on the morning of August 15, 2002. Honestly, the pain was mine but it was more for my wife's as she lay with bandages, tubes, and a morphine pump to ease the agony of the nine-hour surgery she had...

Seek The Things Above

Colossians 3:1-11 T. Robertson once said, "A person has to keep his feet upon the earth, but his head in the heavens." The stress of daily living has become a national struggle. The busy schedules of the Palm Pilot generation overwhelm. On an average day our...

The Triumph Of Christ

Colossians 2:6-15 Paul uses a powerful image to speak of the triumph of Christ (Col. 2:15). The Romans won victories in war. When they conquered their enemies in military battles they marched toward Rome. A celebration ensued when the Roman army marched...

God’s Work: Soul Work

Colossians 1:15-28 A mysterious, invisible force produced an unusual community event in April, 1994 in Cuylerville, New York. Residents awakened one morning to find the community sinking. Huge sinkholes began to form when a nearby salt mine collapsed. Portions of...