We frequent a hard-to-find restaurant because the food is good and their portions are generous. Especially their soft-serve ice cream . . . except for one time. A new employee hadn’t reset the temperature after refilling the machine, and the ice cream was all mush. We smiled, laughed with them at the runny ice cream, […]
Tag: forgiveness
How D. L. Moody* explained Jesus Christ.
“Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel,” Jesus told His disciples. “Wait,” Peter interrupted. “Do You really mean that we are to go back to Jerusalem and preach the Gospel to those men that murdered You?” “Yes,” Jesus told him. “Go hunt up that man that spat in my face. Tell him […]
Calling the plumber.
Imagine arriving home at day’s end to find greasy black liquid spreading across the counter, running down the cabinets onto the floor, and soaking into the hallway carpet. A backed-up kitchen sink on the middle floor of a forty-storied apartment building is neither peaceful nor relaxing. A quick call brought two men running down the […]
How forgiveness works.
Let’s say I’m standing in waist-deep water off Chicago’s Foster Beach with a box of strike anywhere matches in my hand. If I light a match and dip it into the water, what will happen? Yes, it will go out. And if I did the same with a second match, it would also go out. Even […]
Seven Things I’ve Learned About Doing Right (from Psalm 15)
Not everything done in God’s name brings Him glory. According to King David, author of Psalm 15, genuinely godly people* . . . (1) Walk with integrity. (2) Do what is right and just. (3) Tell the truth. (4) Don’t slander, do evil to a neighbor, or take up a reproach against a friend. (5) […]
