by jakeowensby | Mar 22, 2015 | God's love, The Incarnation
Listen to the AudioI love Louisiana. Our food. Our climate. Our landscape. Above all our people. I grew up elsewhere, but Louisiana isn’t just where I live. It’s home.Precisely because Louisiana is my home, I take our problems and challenges to heart. And to be...
by jakeowensby | Jul 30, 2012 | God's love
Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. (John 6:11)If you’re going to follow Jesus—I mean really follow Jesus instead of being a sort of casual fan or a distant...
by jakeowensby | Jul 24, 2012 | God's love
And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed. (Mark 6:56)We go to the doctor when we are sick. We don’t go to...
by jakeowensby | Feb 13, 2012 | God's love
We all want to matter. There is no despair greater than having the sense that the world simply would not notice your absence.Come to think of it, I suspect we would all rather say that the world would be better off without us than to say that our presence or absence...
by jakeowensby | Jan 23, 2012 | Cross, Election, God's love, Repentance
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it. (Jonah 3:10)We human beings change our minds from time to time.Sometimes, that is a very good...
by jakeowensby | Nov 7, 2011 | God's love, Sin, Wrath
A shocking video has gone viral on YouTube in the past week. A hidden camera captures Texas Judge William Adams repeatedly striking his fifteen-year-old, cerebral palsy stricken daughter Hillary with a belt.  As she resists he grows angrier and angrier, curses in...
