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Mark 8:35 “Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.” More than a millennium ago, the Celtic saint Columbanus pointed out that: “It is the end of the road that travelers look for and desire, and because we are travelers…

Job 19:25 “I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.” Job was a righteous man, but found all his blessings wrenched away from him – his health, his wealth, and his children. Amidst conflicting accusations from his so-called friends, he knew how to wrestle with ambiguity,…

Psalm 139:6 “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.” Before going to university, I spent my year out teaching in a rural school in South Africa. I lived by myself in the middle of nowhere. Zebras and antelope would graze around my thatched rondavel. Baboons tore down my roof.…

Isaiah 6:8 “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” I remember being on a train once and a drunk man urinated in the corner. Everyone kept their eyes down and pretended to ignore it. I was disgusted and challenged him. He got extremely aggressive. It was a difficult situation to deal with,…

Ephesians 5:15,16 “Be very careful, then, how you live… making the most of every opportunity.” One of my life goals is to live such that I don’t have any significant regrets at the end of my life. Two Cornell psychologists called Gilovic and Medvec did some detailed research on the relationship between time as a…

Watch the video here! John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory.” Soren Kierkegaard tells the story of a prince who fell madly in love with a beautiful peasant maiden in his kingdom. He wanted to marry her, but how? He could order her to marry…

Matthew 6:27 “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” The following statistics were published in a business magazine. Stress management experts say that only 2% of our ‘worrying time’ is spent on things that might actually be helped by worrying. The figures below illustrate how the other 98% of…

1 Corinthians 7:23 “You were bought at a cost.” The danger of receiving something for free is that you don’t value it. During the war out here, churches were looted for the metal sheeting that made up their roofs. Interestingly, where the sheets had been donated, the local population allowed the looting to take place;…

James 1:22 “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” A little fellow in the ghetto was getting teased by an older boy: “If God loves you, why doesn’t he take care of you? Why doesn’t God tell someone to bring you shoes and a warm coat and…

Matthew 5:29 “If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out.” Two American women were returning from their vacation across the Mexican border when they saw a sick animal in the ditch beside their car. They had a soft spot for the poor little Chihuahua, so they risked smuggling it under a blanket…