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You Will Be My Martyrs
Jesus didn’t say, “You’ll be My marketing reps.” He didn’t say, “You’ll be My content creators.” He said, “You will be My witnesses.” And in Greek, that word is martyres. Sound familiar? Acts 1:8 is the last recorded sentence Jesus speaks before ascending to the right hand of the Father. It’s not a throwaway line.…
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Part 4: Seeds on Good Soil
When I was growing up, I got an opportunity to live with my Grandma Sasser. Her name was Ruda and she is one of the great influences of my life. She was born in 1903 and I was born in 1962. Almost 60 years separated us but we were good friends. Her youngest daughter-…
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Part 3: Seeds Among the Thorns
The curse of being the oldest child is that sometimes the weight of the world is on your shoulders. I was talking with a friend of mine years ago and he commented, “man you sure seem to be weighted down with your responsibilities.” Guilty. My folks divorced when I was 10 or so in the…
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Part 2: Seed on Rocky Soil
Infatuation is a funny thing. Here is a great definition- an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something. Example- “he had developed an infatuation with the girl”. I briefly remember my first “girlfriend”. Her name was Carol. I was in the sixth grade and minding my own business hanging out with the…
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Part 1: Seeds on the Road
by Tim Howington Years ago, I spent the summer in Turkey. We were on a mission trip working with Iranian refugees who had flooded Turkey at the height of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. We spent our summer just making friends and sharing the love of Christ with these lovely people who found themselves…
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Making Friends in the Midst of Racism
Resolving Racism Bible Study (RRBS)- Part 4 of Many I am not mad at anybody. As far as I know I have resolved all the conflicts I have with other people. I do not think anybody is mad at me and if they are, I welcome a phone call. I must admit I am not…
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Racism and the Beatitudes
Resolving Racism Bible Study (RRBS)- Part 1 of Many In our world today we have some real issues. One of the most discussed is how the majority culture treats the minority culture. I live in America and we are having our discussions under the banner of racism. Our discussion involves White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and…
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One Thing is Necessary
For years I have been mentoring/discipling men. One of my great blessing in life was to come to faith in a discipleship culture. Not only was discipleship expected but it was codified. By that I mean that my mentors were very practical in their thinking about how to make disciples and helping leaders practically disciple…
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Why I Stopped Trying to Memorize the Bible!
As a young believer I was exposed to the spiritual discipline of Scripture Memory. I can remember sitting in my living room with one of my mentors as we pulled scripture references out of jar and quoted the verse written on small piece of papers and checked one another from memory. We had tackled the Navigator’s famous TMS…
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Contending, Defending or Pretending
What if I told you that I believed that how we respond to the message of Christ as recorded in the Bible was the key to eternal life and for that matter abundant life while we lived here on this earth. Would you believe me? Would you believe that I believe that? I just finished…
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Expectation of the Mature- Case Study of Philemon
My home group is studying through the book of Philemon. This one chapter wonder is a great compliment to our recently completed study of Colossians. Seems that Paul while in prison has led a runaway slave to Christ and is high on this young man with a checkered past. It seems young Onesimus has run…
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Spiritual Disciplines: Write a commentary
Who me? I can’t write a commentary. That is for the spiritual giants right? How do you think the giants got big? They processed large chunks of Scripture and then wrote down their comments (commentary) on what they thought it meant. For those of you stuck in an endless loop of reading and trying to…
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