“See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey.” –Matthew 21:5 Read: Matthew 21 A few years ago, Billy Graham said to an eager audience: “See the suit I’m wearing? It’s a brand new suit. My children and my grandchildren are telling me I’ve gotten a little slovenly in my old age. [...]
“He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.’” — Mark 16:15 Read: Mark 16 “Tell me, Jimmy, can you talk about some before and after successes?” Of all the questions about PrayFit I fielded on the radio this week, that was probably the toughest to answer. Not because [...]
“You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” –1 Corinthians 6:20 Read: 1 Corinthians 6 Running up the first steep hill of her half-marathon recently, my wife Loretta came up behind a man going maybe half her speed. But since hills are hills, they struggled up together, each at their own pace [...]
“Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air.” — 1 Corinthians 9:26 Read: 1 Corinithans 9 I’m definitely old-fashioned, but who reading this remembers tryouts? I thought of it yesterday when I asked, “Who won?” to a young boy and his mom as they [...]
“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” –Genesis 1:31 Read: Genesis 1 When we think of creation, it’s easy to think of the depths of the ocean floor. Mention God creating the world and our minds gravitate toward the peaks of Everest. Trees, birds, deserts, the sun. Some of God’s [...]
“Run in such a way as to get the prize.” –1 Corinthians 9:24 Read: 1 Corinthians 9 Smarter people than me have said that life is about the journey, not the destination. I thought about it this weekend while my wife and I planned her next marathon (and my next vacation). See, we base a [...]
“I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” — Galatians 2:21 Much is made of the failure rate in baseball. A successful hitter, it is said, fails to get a hit seven out of every 10 trips to the plate. Despite [...]
Turns out PrayFit has a theme song — a song that sums up PrayFit perfectly. My wife and friends might guess it’s a Rocky montage or the Gladiator theme song but alas, no. I have one better. The Little Drummer Boy. (Pa rum pum pum pum) That’s right. Yesterday with my iTunes on shuffle, it [...]
“The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.” –Matthew 26:41 Read: Matthew 26 In my second favorite movie of all-time (Rocky II), Rocky walks to his trainer’s apartment in the middle of the night to ask for his locker back; he wants to fight again. Dismissive, Mickey delivers one of the most painful and [...]
“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” –Matthew 24:36 Read: Matthew 24 With baseball season approaching, we thought we’d warm everyone up for our favorite time of year by talking about…the closer. For those who don’t know, the closer is someone [...]