cross: Red Letter Challenge

Do you know the hymn The Old Rugged Cross? Here are just a couple of lines. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,the emblem of suffering and shame…O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,has a wondrous attraction for me… I’ll admit, though I have sung it countless times, I’ve […]

mercy: Red Letter Challenge

You want to know how you know you’re getting old? Your childhood gets a refresh. Take The Karate Kid. It was a clear sign I was aging when they came out with a remake a couple decades after the original was made. To add insult to injury, Netflix recently developed a spin-off, Cobra Kai, imagining […]

plank: Red Letter Challenge

The use of hyperbole can illustrate a point in dramatic and memorable ways. By exaggerating an idea, that idea is highlighted to powerful and surprising effect. There may be no greater example of the masterful use of hyperbole than Jesus’ story contrasting a speck of sawdust and a plank of wood. “Why do you look […]