There have been numerous occasions where I have caught Rylee, my 2 year-old, about to do something she shouldn’t do.  … Continue reading The proper response to the Gospel

Yesterday my daughter, Rylee uttered the words “I love you daddy” for the first time.  It was in the parking … Continue reading I love you daddy

Today good friends of mine will say good-bye as their son leaves to enter the Air Force.  I called the … Continue reading Some things sneak up on you

2 Kings 21:1-3 “Manasseh was 12 years old when he became king; he reigned 55 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.  He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, imitating the abominations of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.  He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal…”

2 Kings 23:31-32 “Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king; he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; [she was] from Libnah.  He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight…”

It is not a shock that Kings of Israel or Judah are described as doing evil in the Lord’s sight…that happened on a number of occasions.  What was so disturbing to me as I read these scriptures is not that it happened, but who it happened to. Continue reading “How does it happen?”