Stoplights Are Not Suggestions

by Travis Herbelin | October 23, 2020 | Galatians, John, New Testament | 0 Comments

They have a purpose. Stoplights exist so that there will be fewer accidents. They tell us when we can safely go through an intersection and when we can’t. Imagine a world where people regularly ignored stoplights. Stoplights have a purpose. In John 15:17, Jesus gives...

How Could He Do That?

by Travis Herbelin | September 3, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

Sometimes this is a negative question, but sometimes a positive one. For example, Thom’s cancer came back with a vengeance. The morphine was no longer working, and he was in horrible pain. Then Violet walks in, and for the duration of his grandchild’s visit, he smiles...

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...

Wrong Side of the Tracks

by Travis Herbelin | June 19, 2020 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

Some people are just born on the wrong side of the tracks. By luck of birth, one person is socially desirable, and another is undesirable. The Jews thought Jesus was from the wrong side of the tracks. He came from the region of Galilee. His home town was Nazareth, a...

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...

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...

That Just Sounds Wrong

by Travis Herbelin | October 30, 2020 | John, New Testament | 0 Comments

TV commercials sell products. If you remember the commercial but not the product, then the commercial failed. I remember a commercial that sold something, but I don’t remember what it was. I remember the commercial because a teenage daughter shouted at her...

Reading Between the Lines

by Travis Herbelin | January 14, 2022 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

Have you ever been told, “Read between the line.”? Sometimes it is a subtle social cue, like not being invited to a wedding. Other times it is painfully obvious, like someone making a statement by wearing white after labor day…. Do we need to read between the lines to...

Fickle Fate

by Travis Herbelin | December 3, 2021 | Acts, New Testament | 0 Comments

A long time ago, an English teacher taught her class rare words we would never use again. One of those words was “capricious.” When we couldn’t guess the meaning, she defined it for us. What strikes me about “capricious” is that “fickle” can replace it in most...

It Is Finished

by Travis Herbelin | January 8, 2021 | Category Missing | 0 Comments

How much longer? Maybe you have a countdown app on your phone, or you place a big “X” on the calendar every day. Sometimes it can’t just get here soon enough. A birthday, graduation, retirement, or getting out of a cast/quarantine can make time feel like it is...

The Forest and the trees

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

A Prayer

by Travis Herbelin | May 20, 2020 | New Testament

Holy God, You Who are Creator of All That Is, You Who are Love’s source and example, You Who are the great I am, You who are the eternal comforter, and You who are Redeemer of mankind through the ages – past, present, and future – please hear this prayer. You are...

Something was lost in translation

by Travis Herbelin | May 8, 2020 | John, New Testament

Language doesn’t always make sense. If you were to ask a new-to-English-speaker, “What’s up?” the logical answer is, “the sky.” That answer does not actually answer the question that was intended. America’s favorite Bible verse is kind of like that. We see it on...

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