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SOUND WORDS, JULY 30, 2023

GROWING FOR A RUN          Growing up I remember a threat my parents used against me should I fail to act right…If I didn’t get my act together in this class or that one, if I didn’t get the grades my parents knew I was capable of, if I was misbehaving and acting foolish, the threat was usually the same…NO MORE SPORTS.           I love sports. I love playing them. I love watching them. I love watching my son play them. But…

SOUND WORDS, MARCH 19, 2023

FIRST PRIDE AND THEN THE FALL A story is told of a plane that suffered engine failing and was quickly falling to the earth. The plane was carrying four passengers that were all running out of time. An even bigger problem was presented when it was realized that there were only three parachutes on board the plane. One passenger was the pilot of the plane who said to the others, “I must survive in order to report what happened to…

SOUND WORDS, MARCH 5, 2023

THE UNTHINKABLE COMMANDMENT With every advancing sentence in Matthew 5 (v.21), Jesus has taken an ever larger bite out of the human ego. Every new contrast between the popular Pharisaic perversions and the real demand of kingdom righteousness has served to heighten the moral challenge. What the Lord at last commands in the sixth and last of these antitheses must have stunned His audience (Matthew 5:43-48). He has spoken the inconceivable when He said, “But I say to you, love your…
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