Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture
Episodes
Friday Dec 24, 2021
A Christmas blessing
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
We look at the biblical use of a father's blessing for his son (in particular, Isaac's blessing of Jacob) as a metaphor for God's blessing for us. I also remember, when I was a box boy in high school, being sent around town to collect stolen shopping carts, and a woman cursing at me when she saw me hop the wall into her backyard to retrieve a cart, and how she ended up blessing me.
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Shepherds
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
As followers of Jesus, as people who believe in living the way that Jesus lived - with empathy, forgiveness, and grace for all - we inherit the responsibility to act as shepherds for people in spiritual and emotional need. I look at a brief encounter where my wife and I came upon a lonely person displaced by a forest fire.
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Free!
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
I stood in an ICU room with a young woman whose mother was dying. She told me about the sacrifice her mother had made. Fifteen years before, her mother had left home, traveled from the east coast to Colorado, to raise the children of her other daughter, who had died. Then, the day before she was due to finally go home to her husband and her other daughter - after fifteen years - she suddenly had a massive stroke and would never awake again.
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Blessed are those who thirst
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
We are told that those who thirst will be blessed, and if we drink the spiritual water offered by Jesus, we will never thirst again. But how do we remain willing and motivated to search out God in our lives after we have that first, great thirst that is satisfied?