What Did You Even Ask?

by Travis Herbelin | April 2, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

The air was too thick to breathe and too thin to drink. Looking at the grass, which was now less than an inch from his head, his quivering arms finally gave out. Only 12 pushups, not 20. The recruit muttered to himself, “How am I ever going to do more pushups?” Like a...

God Has a Better Plan

by Travis Herbelin | July 4, 2023 | Luke, New Testament | 0 Comments

Two thousand years ago, Elizabeth wanted children. In her culture, children were her priority. She didn’t have any, therefore others looked down on her. Her society wrote her off as too old to be a successful Jewish woman. She was too old to have children. She was...

What Was I Thinking?

by Travis Herbelin | August 14, 2020 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

If I don’t finish a project before the end of the day, then there is a good chance that when I come back to it the next day, I will ask myself, “What was I thinking?” Until I remember what I was thinking, “I lose the bubble,” and just stare at it. Sometimes I think I...

Don’t Bury the Lead

by Travis Herbelin | May 1, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

Burying the lead means that the most important part of a newspaper article is not mentioned first. Newspaper articles are not meant to be read like stories because readers read ruthlessly. Editors expect readers to skip over articles that they don’t appear relevant,...

No Witnesses

by Travis Herbelin | November 26, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

Bob knew it was a perfect crime. He carried out in the dead of night. There were no witnesses, and there were no co-conspirators. Two years later, he heard the verdict and the gavel and began his long life of incarceration. How could Bob have found himself in this...

Looking for a Place of Prayer

by Travis Herbelin | December 31, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

The new year is upon us. Perhaps you are reviewing this past year. Maybe you are resolving yourself to the next. In all of the flurry of our daily lives, make time for quiet time. When you feel crushed by compounding and increasingly urgent priorities, push back and...

The Forest and the trees

by Travis Herbelin | May 20, 2020 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

In high school, we read Leaf by Niggel by J.R.R Tolkien. I completely missed the point of the story. The main character focuses on painting perfect leaves rather than the forest. I thought Niggel’s missing the “big picture” was actually the “big picture” of...

Why Did God Give Us the Book of Acts?

by Travis Herbelin | February 12, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

What did Bradbury mean when he wrote Fahrenheit 451? Many students of literature will give many different answers to that question. The easiest way to know what he meant was to ask him, “What did you mean?” But what if Bradbury is no longer available for an...

Come and See!

by Travis Herbelin | November 30, 2022 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

Nurses just know. They’ve been there, done that. They say, “Just slap a bandaid on it and stop complainin’!” But that same gruff nurse who blows off our ouches and owies as an annoyance will soften like butter in the warm, Texas sun when confronted with a patient who...

Inconceivable

by Travis Herbelin | September 11, 2020 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

“You keep using that word…” Some can quote The Princess Bride movie. Having seen it once or twice myself, I only remember bits and pieces of a silly dialogue about the word “inconceivable.” Wallace Shawn’s character kept saying it to describe the...

Blasphemy

by Travis Herbelin | Jun 4, 2021 | Acts, New Testament

If you ever find yourself in front of a court, look very carefully at the American flag. If it has a yellow fringe, that means the court is declaring itself an admiralty court, and they have no jurisdiction over you. (Note: This is NOT legal advice! Don’t do this!)....

Sweat the Small Stuff

by Travis Herbelin | May 28, 2021 | Acts, New Testament

Rich Carlson has a book titled, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff. Sometimes we need to sweat the small stuff because it is big stuff. What might appear to be a pebble in our lives is a boulder in someone else’s. In Acts 6:1-7, we read of a...

Just What We Do

by Travis Herbelin | May 21, 2021 | Acts, New Testament

It had been a 100-hour workweek. An inspection was coming up, problems were cropping up, so our work hours went up. No one told us to work such hours. No one questioned the need for long hours. The mission dictated the workload, so we worked. It was just what we did....

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