The following is a post by Bread for the Bride blog author, Cheryl McGrath. Cheryl is a sensitive and thoughtful writer whose richness in the word of God is rare. Cheryl disagreed with my recent post, “Get Your Head on Straight.” (Please read my post before reading Cheryl’s). After discussing things, I asked her to…
Author: mrteague
Teague McKamey lives in Washington state with his wife and two children. Teague’s poetry has appeared in several journals and in self-published books. He blogs at thevoiceofone.org and awanderingminstrel.com. In all areas of life, Teague desires that Christ may be magnified in his body (Php. 1:20).
Seeing for Ourselves
My wife and I moved from Texas to Washington in March of 2000. Just before moving, we went to our Wednesday night prayer meeting. Someone was sharing about how Mary Magdalene saw the risen Christ and was sent to tell the disciples about the One she had seen (John 20:17, 18). As I listened, the…
Get Your Head on Straight
“But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ” (1 Cor. 11:3). God is Head of all. No matter how many intermediate heads exist they lead in a chain to God. The woman is under…
Sin-tervention
Image from Intervention 911 Addiction is one of the purest expressions of sin I can think of. The addict is a person compelled to do something that gratifies them but doesn’t make them happier or healthier. This is the essence of sin. For this reason, I sometimes think about addiction and sin because the parallels…
Wonderful Things in Your Law
In this post, I’d like to feature one of my booklets, “Wonderful Things in Your Law.” This booklet began with questions: How did Jesus fulfill the law? What does it mean for the law to be fulfilled? These were things I grasped with my heart but had never reasoned out. The need to reason them…
Rabid Dogs, Snapping Turtles, and the Hope of Glory
When it comes to vacationing with small children, my wife and I agree: sometimes you feel like you’re surviving moreso than having fun. We just got back from a 2000 mile-ish round trip; there were times when even surviving was in question. OK, I’m exaggerating. But this is no exaggeration: At one point during the…
Back in a Flash
Life is busy. I don’t know about you but most days it flashes before my eyes. After working & caring for children, I have about an hour to an hour & a half left for everything else–praying, Bible study, blogging, yard work, reading, hanging out with friends, house work, returning emails…I could go on but…
More than Perfect (Part 2)
Continued from “More than Perfect (Part 1)“ There are many dimensions to this story. In one dimension, Job pictures Jesus. Jesus was handed over to the devil and suffered immensely (Luke 22:53; John 13:27). Much of what Job says can be placed in the mouth of Jesus and reflects what Jesus felt as He writhed…
More than Pefect (Part 1)
Job was someone the Lord Himself described as “a man of perfect integrity” (Job 1:8). That’s high praise…sort of. Why do I say “sort of”? Because the book of Job is largely about the fact that God wanted something more than perfect integrity for His servant. For many of us, perfect integrity is the…
A Monstrous Confession
OK. Confession time. I love monsters—in literature, film, you name it. Years ago, I read an article that talked about monsters as powerful artistic symbols. Up to that point, I mainly thought of Bela Lugosi or Lon Chaney slouching through a B-movie set on one of the back lots at Universal Studios. You know, Plan…
The Voice of One 