Pavlov's Cat

My wife and I were talking and she mentioned Pavlov's dog. We were feeding our cats at the time, and I wondered what Pavlov's cat would have been like...

God's Sheep-Shepherds

I have been thinking a lot about ministry while in Thailand. One thing that occurred to me was that God while God has called men to "shepherd" other believers, those shepherds are still sheep! I think sometimes that is a forgotten fact, and those in ministry can look at the others in the church as "those people". Truth is, we're all "those people". And we all do stupid things, and so we all need the Great Shepherd to guide us all! And interesting thought to ponder...

The Painter is the Artist, Not the Brush

I had done some thinking about how God uses people. I was thinking of a number of instances where the Bible speaks of God using people as the means to do things in the world. It's really something to stop and think about. It's sort of like a painter using a brush. This is something that I am pretty familiar with, so I thought it would make a good illustration. One guy has all the fancy equipment, and yet can do little more than a stick figure. The other guy has meager equipment and yet produces a masterpiece. So it is with our lives. It's really not about how good the brush (people) is, it's about how good the artist is. And since in the illustration, the artist is God... well, we don't have to make our lives a masterpiece, God's already at work doing that. And He'll probably do a better job than we could. I chose Psalm 100:3 to sound this out. God made us, not ourselves. And He is so much more capable of painting a masterpiece out of our lives.