READ: COLOSSIANS 3: 23-24 Work hard cheerfully at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than people. (V. 23) Robert Lewis in “Winning at Work,” stated that men spend 60-65% of their lifetimes at work. He further indicated that according to a Gallup survey, 80% of men feel miscast in…
READ: ROMANS 12: 1-2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. (V. 2) “All are welcome to come as you are and let change take place inside.” I noticed this sign on a local Florida church during my…
READ: 2 PETER 3: 5-15 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed but wants everyone to repent. (V.9) The normally tranquil and peaceful park was teeming with boisterous teens and young adults celebrating…
READ: PHILIPPIANS 3: 13-21 “I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven.” (v. 14) “I am a Montgomery County Police Officer, a soldier of the law.” Honestly, when I learned these words, an integral part of our Code…
READ: GENESIS 6 Now the Lord observed the extent of the people’s wickedness, and he saw that all their thoughts were consistently and totally evil. (V. 5) When I first entered police service, I was issued a standard .38 Colt Police Special six shot revolver. This was deemed sufficient to meet any threat that I…
“… and all who heard it were amazed. Luke 2:18 “God was winking at you,” chuckled my 91-year-old mother-in-law. “Happens to me all the time.” I had just finished spinning a remarkably improbable story. Like one of those billion-to-one odds kind of stories—a moment where the convergence of time place and circumstance is unusually precise. …
READ: EZEKIEL 37 Then he said to me, “Son of Man these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, we have become old dry bones—all hope is gone.” (V. 11) The word impact has various contextual implications when used in a law enforcement setting. It’s use ranges from describing a violent vehicle crash…
“Let us go now…so they went with haste.” LUKE 2:14 “I’d been asleep about an hour,” shared my bleary-eyed. 36-year-old son, Calvin. “The rain woke me up. Relentless. Clock read12:11am.” A warm bed on a cold night is pretty tough to surrender. Few things in life are more delicious than knowing you’re dry and safe…
READ JOHN 14:23-31 “But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. (V.26) The Lieutenant was adamant, when our detective section caught a homicide, that everyone would be called into work. The first 48 hours were…
The Christmas morning I spent alone in the hospital was nothing like the scenes I had grown up experiencing. At 25 years old, a blockage in my small intestine required emergency surgery and landed me in the hospital for 10 days; day 7 was Christmas. There were no sounds of family laughter, no rustling of…