Greek Yogurt Is Terrible

by Travis Herbelin | June 27, 2023 | Luke, New Testament | 0 Comments

Johnny stood, mouth open in disgust. “It gets stuck between your teeth, is too tough to chew, and tastes like day-old Dr. Pepper. Greek yogurt is yucky!” He wrinkled his nose even thinking about it. Jen paused her spoon an inch from her open mouth. “Have you ever...

Bumper Sticker

by Travis Herbelin | August 20, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

I once read a bumper sticker that said, “God said it. I believe it. That settles it.” I thought it was a great bumper sticker, and then I thought about it a little more. The middle part, “I believe it,” just didn’t matter. If God says it, that settles it. Our...

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...

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...

On the Outside Looking In

by Travis Herbelin | April 9, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

Not everyone gets included. Someone has to be picked last for kickball in PE class. Some kids don’t have parents to provide for them, much less buy them gifts for birthdays or Christmas. The weird guy at work is isolated because he is the topic of conversation, not a...

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...

“Did you dunk the cats yet?”

by Travis Herbelin | December 10, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

How would I answer that question? On the one hand, I didn’t dip the cats for fleas, but on the other hand, the cats would object. Violently. Hopefully, I misheard the question. Hopefully, I would make sure of what was said before I needlessly treat the cats...

Those Among You Who Fear God

by Travis Herbelin | October 15, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” Without Google, I could not tell you that Shakespeare wrote that in his play, Julius Caesar. I must have read it at some point, probably in high school, and the phrase stuck with me. Why? It uses vocative language to...

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...

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...

I Am an American…

by Travis Herbelin | Nov 20, 2020 | John, New Testament

The first article of the Code of Conduct is, “I am an American fighting in the forces that guard my country and our way of life, I am prepared to give my life in their defense.” The heart of the Code is love. Dying for the country is love. In John 15:13, Jesus says,...

That Sure Is a Lot of Work

by Travis Herbelin | Nov 13, 2020 | John, Matthew, New Testament

There is a scene in McFarland, USA when Kevin Costner had worked in the fields until all he could do was lay on the ground, moaning in misery. Some people see Christianity like that and ask, “Is it worth it?” In John 15:1-17, Jesus talks to His disciples...

Yogi Berra

by Travis Herbelin | Nov 6, 2020 | 2 Peter, New Testament

“Predictions are tough, especially about the future.” Yogi Berra had some great one-liners. This one is particularly appropriate right now. This was/will be a tense week. The election will have come and gone, but we might not have the results when this gets printed....

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