One More For JC

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:14-17) Another year has come and gone so quickly.  Another year of too many hours at work, too many hours watching television, and too many hours tracking my favorite teams on the internet.  However, last week as I was sitting in church (with my new year’s chronological daily reading guide in hand), I made a promise to myself that 2005 would be different; 2005 would be the first year that I’ve read the bible from cover to cover!  Sure I’ve read the New Testament before, and I’ve even read decent sized chunks of the Old, but sadly the reading o

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.  Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?  If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! (Matthew 7:7-11) It’s been a very difficult year for me on a professional level.  Although I’ve always been dedicated at work, this year found me working as much as 21 hour days and a good portion of my weekends.  From January through September, I was involved with a financial project in Detroit that at many times felt beyond me.  I was working in a world I never had before (Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow Statements), I was working with a new product that was very much in its infancy when the project

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.  (Hebrews 2:9) Dee and I went to see “The Passion of The Christ” last Friday.  It was a very heart wrenching two hours and six minutes, and without a doubt the most powerful movie I’ve ever seen.  The film’s intent is to tell the story of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus, but it goes well beyond that.  It seems to lift you from your seat and transport you to the Garden of Gethsemane, to His trial, to His scourging, to His carrying of the cross, and finally to His death and resurrection.  Although a Hollywood movie can only take you so far, it does convey the extent of Christ’s sacrifice in a way no film has ever done before.  A few months back in “ The Cost ”, I wrote about the song “Here I Am To Worship” and how “I’ll never know how much it cost to see my sin upon that cross.”  Although