Here and Now

Lost in Song I remarked in a sermon recently that the human emotional state is so fragile that it is affected by the weather (it’s a nice day today, so most of you all are probably in pretty good moods like I am).   Last night, during the Casting Crowns concert, lead singer Mark Hall commented similarly.   He warned that if we live by our emotions by basing our decisions on them, we are going to get ourselves into trouble.   But He also acknowledged the joy of riding the emotional high that can come along with hearing good music, which a few thousand people were sharing with him throughout the night.   But there were some that looked as if they were not…           Sitting in the back row, I had an opportunity to look over the crowd.   There were so many that were really into the music.   Then there were some that were REALLY into the music (including my wife and me).   And then there were some that were not so into it.           You know the kind of guy I’m talking about, right?   You’

Feeding Hungry Hearts It is amazing how God has a way of showing us what the right decision is.           Let me set this up for you: we have set up on the RFH website a form to fill out for people that would like a free copy of the Bible.   We have some $5.00 paperback Bibles that we use for these requests.   Well, we have been getting some requests over the past couple of weeks.   The first man to request one was a man from Nigeria.   I was amazed and so blessed that someone halfway around the world was coming to us for a Bible!   So I packed one up, headed over to the post office, and we wound up spending well over that $5.00 to get this man his Bible.   Oh, well, if we get someone overseas needing a Bible every now and again, no big deal to pay the extra postage… The second man to request a Bible was from Kenya.   The same day we got a request from a campus ministry in Nigeria that needs Bibles to give out.   This week, a man from the Philippines requested a Bible.   Are you seeing