by Jeff Kephart | Feb 2, 2024 | Encouragement
I want to let you in on some wrestling I have been doing with God lately. It involves two unassailable Biblical facts about Jesus. First, Jesus never compromised, soft-pedaled, or underplayed truth. Jesus never sinned in any way (Hebrews 4:15, 2 Corinthians 5:21)....
by Jeff Kephart | Jan 3, 2024 | Encouragement
Many of us have watched a television series that ends an episode with a “cliffhanger.” That’s the strategy that leaves an important plot element hanging in the balance without resolution, leading us to say, “wait, what is going to happen?” The need to know how things...
by Jeff Kephart | Dec 5, 2023 | Encouragement
The “Christmas story” is one of the Bible’s most well-known accounts. For Christians and non-Christians alike, the “baby born in a manger” is a familiar event, as the season’s many nativity displays attest. The challenge, though, is that our familiarity may mask how...
by Jeff Kephart | Nov 3, 2023 | Encouragement
We Christians enter the Thanksgiving season with an opportunity to “choose to give thanks.” Many Americans are driven by their feelings—after all, one of the most common excuses for stepping away from most anything is, “I don’t feel like it!”. People abandon marriage...
by Jeff Kephart | Oct 3, 2023 | Encouragement
Any time I have the opportunity to take a commercial airline flight, I am freshly amazed at the view from 30,000 feet. While the details of what is on the ground don’t change physically, seeing them from cruising altitude provides a totally different perspective....
by Jeff Kephart | Sep 5, 2023 | Encouragement
My wife and I noticed yesterday the first blush of brown amongst the green soybean fields in our area. Even as the summer heat lingers, the crops are hinting that harvest is on the way. Farmers are aware of the “harvest envelope,” the limited time between the final...
