Category: Musings

Church and Ministry, Leadership, Musings

Just Do It

The other day I was counseling a student in my ministry and I said these words to him, “The things you don’t want to talk about, are things you most need to talk about.”  It’s so true.  So let’s have one of those conversations right now. Continue reading “Just Do It”

Family, Musings

How does it happen?

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?”