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Do you wear a veil? More on 2 Corinthians 3—the end.

I’ve been thinking more about the veil . . . in my last briefing, I referenced Exodus 34, and I should like to take you there again.

Stand with me and follow Aaron’s gaze, as he looks to see the familiar…

The Law didn’t fail—we did.

The Law relied on us to be faithful, and we couldn’t be. ‘Truth is, we needed a whole new system . . . one based on the righteousness of

another, not our own; we needed what only God could have conceived of—…

Company sales numbers had just come across her Blackberry; sure enough, Amy had moved to number 37 in the country. Thirty-seven? Is that good or

bad? It meant 37^th place out of 500

pharmaceutical sales representatives in a large company. The

results were quite measurable and they were good.…

Company sales numbers had just come across her Blackberry; sure enough, Amy had moved to number 37 in the country. Thirty-seven? Is that good or

bad? It meant 37^th place out of 500

pharmaceutical sales representatives in a large company. The

results were quite measurable and they were good.…

Has it occurred to you that you represent God to others? Whether or not you like it or you applied for the job, your words and actions reflect God to others. Hmm .

. . how do you feel about that?

Take a look at the end of…

Forgiveness is costly. . . .Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Colossians 3.13 The Lord forgave us

of the very thing that cost him his life.…

Good Day!

Yesterday we spoke of Paul’s desire to forgive a man who had hurt him deeply . . . forgiveness is immense. It breaks down walls, frees hearts, mends

countries, restores families, and draws out the best in us. It can turn

hatred into tenderness and the desire to destroy into a passion to

protect. It is more powerful than any weapon,…

I always think of Paul as bold—assertive, even to the point of being aggressive, with keen intellect and a ‘take no prisoners’ kind of

mentality. Somebody wronged him terribly, and the whole

assembly knew about it. Consequences were meted out, to

correct the behavior not to cause him to feel alienated or unloved. Now….Paul

tells them, ‘Enough! It is time to forgive him and move

forward.’ We see Paul’s…

This last week I got to be with my Long Beach people two times, Thursday and Friday. Love that. On Thursday, I took the

message of “In Jesus Christ…yes!” to a large, restless crowd. Crazy

Bonnie came waltzing up, wanting to interject things, but the folks

shut her right down. A young Hispanic woman in the back

yelled, ‘sit down, I want to hear,’ which only…

JOY . . . People want it.

People want to be around others who have it.

People want to know how to get it.

Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “we work with you for your joy . . .” 2 Cor. 1.24…

When I was a kid, we made an annual trip to Clear Lake (California)—honestly, all my best memories from childhood go back to

that lake. It wasn’t just the waterskiing with my family,

though I LOVED that, it was all the other stuff like fishing, clamming,

jumping off the pier, and trying to get so many people on the dock that

we would sink it. I also remember the lizards. My cousins…

Can you give me meaning in my life, God? Yes, Child.

Can you show me the way to find peace? Most certainly, Daughter.…

Can you imagine questioning Paul’s character? Now I don’t mean even from our perspective and all we know about this man…but as a contemporary of his—Paul, who had been personally

confronted by Jesus…

[Weekly installment on my ministry to the street people of Long Beach. It has been quite a journey and I have introduced some winsome folk over the

months of writing about LB. It is

great reading if you would like to read past briefings—…

Do you ever think about your behavior? You know,

~why you do the things you do

~why you look at things like you do

~why you view the world around you as you do…

Today is the day that I will conduct my friend’s funeral—my beautiful friend, who life got the better of. I have conducted quite a few

memorial-type services, including my own dear mother’s, but this is the

first one of my friends to depart. So near my age, living

only four houses away, this feels so very wrong. Nonetheless,

it is mine to honor, and mine to give hope—especially to her three

teen-aged…

Two men met to transact some business in wartime. The one was full of how the train in which he had travelled had been attacked from the air. He would not stop talking about the

excitement, the danger, and the narrow escape. The other

man, in the end, said quietly—‘Well, let’s get on with our business now. I’d

like to get away fairly early because my house was demolished by a bomb

last night.’…

Where did we leave brother Paul? We look now at his letter to the church he had established in the city of Corinth, in which he

encouraged, instructed, and corrected the body of believers. In

our study of 1 Corinthians, we learned so much about our Christian

faith, including proper conduct within the church, and how different the

church should be from the world around us. Paul explained

the essential…

In case you haven’t noticed, no two days are the same with the prayer and teaching ministry to the street people of Long Beach. [for those of you who just

joined ‘Morning Briefings’ – from Kenya, Nigeria, India, Pakistan,

Tanzania, Texas, San

Clemente and beyond—once a week, I have the privilege of leading…

There’s the historical scope of Scripture, the inspirational and instructional value of God’s Word, and insight into the various translations that abound . . . now

what? Is that it? Actually, no . . .…