The Eternity Seed

I know I’m quoting the title to Olaf’s song in the movie frozen. If you don’t know Olaf is a snowman who wishes to see what summer is like. My daughter and her family can tell you… it’s hot. It’s hot in Dallas, Tx watching a lacrosse tournament. My daughter-in-law and my grandson can tell you… It’s hot in Nashville, TN watching a baseball tournament. Olaf I just gotta let the cat out of the bag.…

My life has begun a new dance. The drum beat has slowed down. Oh that’s just a poetic way of stating I’m growing old. I’m an empty nester and the hectic sometimes chaotic rhythm of still raising children has gone. Now I am an observer. I’m watching my daughter and her family, my son and his family go from one lacrosse tournament, to the next baseball, softball, or football event. I look at their…

As I sit here looking at my advent wreath all the candles are lit and I love sitting in the glow of its candle light. I see now one of my candles are leaning. We broke that candle as we put it in. It has tape around its brokenness and that tape preaches a sermon all its own. That’s what Jesus did that first Christmas so long ago. He came into a broken world not to just patch it but to heal…

Yesterday as I sat reflecting the Christmas season of 2024 I just knew it went by way too fast. I wanted more time. I hadn’t even burned up all my Bath and Body Works Christmas candles. I wanted more time with my family. I wanted more time to visit with my oldest grandson who is a senior this year. In five months he will be graduating. In seven months he will be going to the University of Denver.…

He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clang, hammer, ding, dong, bell; bell, dong, ding, hammer, clang, clash! Oh glorious, glorious! Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his head. No fog, no mist. Clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold—cold, piping for the blood to dance to—golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh…

One of my pastors from recent years coined a term I love and have used quite often as I read God’s word ”SANCTIFIED IMAGINATION” My sanctified imagination runs rampant around this time every year. I love all the hidden gems and nuances of that first Christmas Eve and all the events surrounding the days when Christ left the THRONE OF HEAVEN and came down into the mess humanity had made of His…

”In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered…

”When this corruptible is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: Death has been swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?“‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15‬:‭54‬-‭55‬ ‭HCSB‬‬Paul was quoting the prophet Hosea ”“I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem…

What do you do with Saturday while you are waiting on Sunday? I know what the Jewish religious leaders and the Roman authorities did: ”The next day, the day after Preparation Day for Passover, the chief priests and the Pharisees went together to Pilate. They said to him, “Our master, we remember that this imposter claimed that he would rise from the dead after three days. So please, order the…

”They crucified two criminals with Him, one on His right and one on His left. So the Scripture was fulfilled that says: And He was counted among outlaws.“‭‭Mark‬ ‭15‬:‭27‬-‭28‬ ‭HCSB‬‬ Oh the irony of Good Friday! The innocent Lamb of God hung between the guilty of the land. The two criminals deserved execution Roman style, but Jesus wielded no knife, He stole no money, He was no thief, He had…

His death is imminent. In fact by the end of this meal the soldiers and his betrayer would be coming for Him. ”Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son,…

”And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.“‭‭Luke‬ ‭21‬:‭37‬ ‭ESV ”When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.“‭‭John‬…

”And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and…

The last Passover lamb, Jesus the Lamb of God, entered Jerusalem as all the pilgrims were choosing and buying their lamb for the Passover celebration a few days later. ”They came to Jerusalem, and He went into the temple complex and began to throw out those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers’ tables and the chairs of those selling doves, and would not permit…

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

”The next day, when the large crowd who had come to the Passover feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took branches of palm trees [in homage to Him as King] and went out to meet Him, and they began shouting and kept shouting “Hosanna! Blessed (celebrated, praised) is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; just…

I am going to tell you a story. “It is a tale as old as time.” No it is not Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. It is the Haggadah, the Hebrew word for “telling.” This is the story of a Passover meal. There is an order to this meal, a Seder (order). The night before the Lord God led the children of Israel to escape from their brutal oppressors in Egypt, ”“This month shall be for you the beginning of…

It’s a practice When you think of the word practice, can’t you hear Allen Iverson’s rant, “Practice, we are talking about practice.” The word gets a bad rap. I think of all the times my mother would tell me, “Go practice your piano.” I would rather go to the dentist. Practice – to carry out or perform a skill habitually to perfect that skill. ”‘Now this day shall be a memorial to you, and you…