Bless Your Heart

by Travis Herbelin | December 17, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

I detest running. When I think of people who say they enjoy it, I say to myself, “Bless their heart.” I thought that same thing about the drill instructor long ago who told us we were in a hurry, so we would only run for 45 minutes. Why did the military compel us to...

A Simple Recipe

by Travis Herbelin | June 26, 2020 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

Wrap the potato in aluminum foil. Preheat the oven. Stick the wrapped potato into the oven. How easy is that? Only two ingredients: potato and aluminum. After it’s cooked, you can add butter, or sour cream, or whatever else to taste. If you follow this recipe, you...

But God Raised Him From the Dead

by Travis Herbelin | October 22, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

I remember my first office. No longer living in a cubicle, the trappings of the office were nice. It would have been easy to let it go to my head. The office didn’t exist as a reward but as a tool to do my job more effectively. The most important part was the job. The...

Sweat the Small Stuff

by Travis Herbelin | May 28, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

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...

I’ll Sell You Two Surgical Masks for $200

by Travis Herbelin | April 24, 2020 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

Price-gouging means that someone offers little in exchange for much. It is not a new concept. Faithful Jews were coming to the temple to offer God worship. Unfaithful Jews were selling over-priced offerings of oxen, sheep, pigeons, and even official money with a...

Denying Jesus

by Travis Herbelin | December 18, 2020 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Not me! That’s a fun song for small children, but when the question is, “Who is a Christian?” how shall we answer? The answer is of paramount personal importance. In John 18, Peter denies Jesus three times (vv. 17, 25, and...

It Doesn’t Make Sense…At First

by Travis Herbelin | January 22, 2021 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

It was a new job outside my career field. That meant learning new acronyms and new regulations. It also meant dealing with a lot more civilians. At first, so much didn’t make sense. By the time I left the assignment, I had a firm grasp of what didn’t make sense at...

Come and See for Yourselves!

by Travis Herbelin | November 27, 2022 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

A friend from Germany visited Penelope, Texas. She had seen a map and intellectually understood that towns in Texas were separated by miles and miles. She did not truly understand it until she saw how long and empty the road was between Birome, Leroy, Penelope, and...

Change Is Tough

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

The Air Force provides a lot of training, very little of it on a volunteer basis. One of the trainings I took was in “Change Management.” It may have had a different, more military sounding name, something like “Non-linear Progression of Leadership Requirements” but I...

Good Enough for Government Work

by Travis Herbelin | October 16, 2020 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

Lowest cost, technically acceptable. That is what we were told to look for, and it bothered me. The meaning of “good enough for government work” has really gone downhill. It now means as cheap as possible and barely able to do the job. The Bible is not the product of...

What Did You Even Ask?

by Travis Herbelin | Apr 2, 2021 | Acts, New Testament

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...

What do I do now?

by Travis Herbelin | Mar 26, 2021 | Acts, New Testament

My crew partner admitted to saying, “But I haven’t got to that chapter in the book!” His wife’s water broke, but he hadn’t finished, “What to Expect When You Are Expecting.” The end of the pregnancy snuck upon him. At the crucial moment, he asked the question,...

You’re Not the Boss of Me!

by Travis Herbelin | Mar 19, 2021 | Acts, New Testament

Imagine an older child telling a younger, “You need to clean up your room.” Would it surprise you if the younger said, “You’re not the boss of me!” Have you heard this same conversation? This “conversation” is a microcosm of the world at large today. Everyone wants to...

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