Ecclesiastes 12:10

  I have a friend that has a food aversion to eggs. He is not allergic but he still can’t eat them.  When he was young, he almost choked to death while eating an egg.  Now, when he even smells eggs cooking, his throat closes up and he feels that panic of choking.   I can hardly imagine his fate. I love eggs. I think of them like Forrest Gump’s friend Bubba thought about shrimp. Fry them, boil them, scramble them make a sandwich out of them, I don’t care I will eat them! If I couldn’t eat eggs it would be a tragedy.   I guess that is unless they almost killed me…   Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry . Colossians 3:5   There are lots of behaviors that the world engages in that could be enjoyed, in a perverse way. For some new (and some not so new) Christians, there is a draw back into those old ways. We crave the sin like I...

    When I was young, we had many anti-drug campaigns in our schools. If you ever had to set thru one of them you probably heard about Len Bias.  Len Bias was an All-American forward at the University of Maryland that was drafted by the Boston Celtics as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft.  Two days after the draft, Bias went to a party to celebrate with some friend, where supposedly he used cocaine for the first time.  He died that night from cardiac arrhythmia induced by a cocaine overdose.  Bias was the poster case for why you should never try drugs. Just one time could kill you, don’t end up like Len Bias.    As strong of an illustration as it was, it seemed to me to have the very different effect than what was intended.  While the message was true (One time can kill you), it wasn’t the norm.  Kids that did end up trying drug and immediately didn’t fall over dead then began to look at all the anti-drug information t...

  In March 1898, the British started building a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. During the next nine months of construction, two maneless male lions stalked the campsite, dragging workers from their tents at night and devouring them. The two man-eating lions were credited with killing 135 people in less than a year before they were eventually killed by the project leader John Patterson.   As the attack intensified, hundreds of workers fled from Tsavo, halting construction on the bridge. Crews initially tried to scare off the lions by building campfires and bomas( thorn fences) around their camp for protection to keep the man-eaters out, but to no avail. The lions leaped over or crawled through the thorn fences. The lions were ruthless, attacking patients in the hospital tents, ambushing water carriers during the day. In his memoirs Patterson wrote: "(The lions') methods became so uncanny, and their man-stalking so well-timed and so certain of success, t...