Wonderfully Plagued

  • Holy or Happy?

    In Leviticus 11, God was speaking to Aaron and Moses, giving them the Law as it applied to the Israelites. In verse 44, God said “Be happy, for I am happy.” Ok, put down those stones you’re ready to throw at me right now. I realize that is NOT what the scripture says. Americans are…

  • The Three “B’s” of Our Faith

    If you do a Google search about the number of religions in the world, you won’t get an answer. At least not a meaningful one. A brief search indicates anywhere between 4,000 and 11,000 religions. However, over 77 percent of religious adherents can be classified into five major religions.  According to the Pew Research Center,…

  • You’re Invited: A $1.50 Costco Lunch

    I recently saw a post on Facebook that posed the following query “If you could take any three people to lunch at Costco for their $1.50 hot dog and a drink, who would you take? I found it interesting to scan through the comments that people made. Costco began this practice in 1985 and has…

  • Who Matters? You Matter

    In John 5 we see that Jesus is in Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. It may have been Passover, but we are not certain what feast they were attending. There were large crowds who had come to worship. Jesus saw a man by the pool of Bethesda, and healed him, telling him to…

  • The Sin of Partiality

    In his epistle, James writes to fellow believers “if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as violators (James 1:9) This is a part of a longer passage (James 1:1-13) in which he upbraids his readers for showing favoritism or partiality between individuals, saying that doing so is a…

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