Helping Others – Page 2 – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

Salty Light – Matthew 5:13-16

Why is Matthew including, at some length, this sermon of Jesus from the mount (Luke includes a portion of this sermon preached on another occasion, Jesus no doubt preaching the message in several towns

Living For Others – 2 Kings 20

Fire has been set to the Amazon rain forest by people desiring the land for economic exploitation. To get a benefit now they are willing to sacrifice future generations around the world. The loss of the

Standing Man: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 20)

I love the movie Bridge of Spies with Tom Hanks playing the lawyer, James B. Donovan, who represented a Soviet spy, Rudolf Abel, arrested in the United States in 1957 and then later used to make a swap

Rescue Me, O My God: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 19)

To whom do you attribute rescue? My son-in-law was in a terrible car accident a couple of years ago. An Air Wing helicopter carried him to the Regional Medical Center. Emergency surgery took care of a

Leadership Tests: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 11)

Leaders, no matter what level of leadership they hold, will always be tested. Parents will be tested by the behaviors of their children. Business leaders will be tested by problems in the market or personnel

The Least Is Greatest: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 9:33-37)

How do you know when someone’s ego is too far gone? They don’t get embarrassed by their obvious conceitedness. They perhaps even celebrate it. “Nobody builds walls better than me…I

Shade Tree or Weed? Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 4:26-34)

Are you a shade tree or a weed? Jesus continues describing the kingdom in parables and by doing so exposes our wrong motives and encourages real life. Take a look at yourself in this mirror, he says. He

Daily Thoughts from Mark: Hardness of Heart (Mark 3:1-6)

Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man

Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Mourning to Joy (Zechariah 8:18-23)

And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall

Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Why Fast? How to Fast (Zechariah 7)

In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men

Daily Thoughts from Acts: The New Church Paradigm (Acts 11:19-30)

Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews. But there were some of them,

Daily Thoughts from Acts: Miracles (Acts 9:32-43)

Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed. And Peter said to him,

Daily Thoughts from Acts: Godly Listening (Acts 9:20-31)

And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.” And all who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called

Daily Thoughts from Acts: Loving Discipline (Acts 5:1-11)

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at

Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Falling on a Grenade (3:16-18)

Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Falling on a Grenade By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods

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