Bret Legg
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Trick questions can be…well…tricky. For instance, how would you answer this question: “Have you stopped beating your spouse?” Answering this question is tricky, because if you agree, it sounds like you use to beat your spouse. If you…
When you think of the Bible, you typically think of things like: Adam and Eve; Mose and the Read Sea; the walls of Jericho; the life, death and resurrection of Jesus; the Revelation and the end times; etc. But, when you think of the Bible,…
God calls us to be holy, but what does that mean? The word “holy” means to be clean and set apart for something special. A life of holiness is not something you stumble into. It doesn’t just happen on it’s own once you become a believer.…
At first glance, Leviticus chapters 9 and 10 appear to be quite different from each other. Chapter 9 paints a picture of Aaron and his sons beginning their priestly ministry with joy and excitement. But then chapter 10 paints a picture of…
In my last post, How Teenagers Bring Out the Worst in Their Parents, I talked abut the very difficult job of raising teenagers, and how it can effect parents. In this post, let’s talk about how parents can bring out the best in their…
I typically write posts focused on marriage, but this post is going to veer more into the area of parenting. Specifically, parenting teenagers, and more specifically, how teenagers bring out the worst in their parents. As a former youth…
Resentment can be like a wall that separates spouses, and the longer the wall stays up, the harder it is to get over it. Walls of resentment can become so high and thick that spouses lose hope of ever getting over it. But there are some…
Listen to these phrases from past Christian worship music… “We want to see Jesus lifted high” “I want to see you” “Open the eyes of my heart” “Show me your glory” Like Moses (Ex. 33:18-23), we have a desire to see God for ourselves. And…
Let’s be honest. There are some passages of Scripture that aren’t very thrilling or inspiring. According to 2 Timothy 3:16, all of God’s Word is important and we can profit from everything in the Bible, but some passages are just more…
Believers are at great risk…not of atheistic ideologies or political agendas, but of comfortable familiarity. As believers, we have the assurance that the blood of Jesus is the all sufficient payment for our sin and that because we have…
Have you ever had the experience of looking at your spouse in thinking, “We use to be so close. How did we drift apart? What happened?” If you have, you are not alone. I think that thought crosses the mind of nearly every spouse at one…
Do you really want a better marriage? Sounds like a stupid question, doesn’t it? Who wouldn’t want a better marriage? No one wants their marriage to be bad, yet so many marriages continue to languish in various states of dissatisfaction,…
“But I didn’t mean to.” “That wasn’t my intention.” These are words often used to excuse, gloss over, or at least soften our sin. Now it’s true that we can sin unintentionally. We are unaware of so many things. The question is…does being…
Leviticus chapter 3 talks about the peace or fellowship offering. Fellowship is a word that gets thrown around a lot in church circles. It’s one of those words that gets used so much and so loosely that much of it’s meaning becomes diluted…
Grain offerings and worship?! What am I supposed to do with this chapter? It’s not like I carry a sack of wheat around in order to worship God! Still, 2 Tim. 3:16 tells us that all Scripture (including Scripture about grain offerings) is…
Winnie the Pooh is a classic in children’s literature. As young children, we listened to adults read the great adventures of Pooh and his friends. As older children, we sat transfixed in front of a screen as Walt Disney made those…
S-I-N. These three little letters form a very powerful and highly charged word in both our vocabulary and our experience. Sin is a destructive force in our lives, and it must be dealt with decisively. The method God gave the Israelites for…
I’ve known people who wanted to learn to play an instrument. So they purchased the instrument, took the lessons, bought the music, and did everything just as they were supposed to do. They learned how to technically play the instrument,…
I remember my parents telling me, “There will never be enough money to do all you want to do.” As I’ve grown older, I’ve certainly found that to be true. Still, God has shown us there is always enough money and resources to do all He wants…
When I was a kid, I used to play a game called “hot potato.” The object of the game was to pass on what was passed to you as quickly as you could, without dropping it. If you dropped it or held on to it, you lost. There is a spiritual…
Sometimes things just stick out to me when I’m reading Scripture. It’s as if, in the midst of all that’s there, one thing jumps off the page and gets my attention. It may be insignificant or inconsequential to others, but it floors me.…
My wife is not much for talking on the phone. She prefers to text, so she often texts rather than calls. The problem is, if she’s texting someone when we’re together, I have no idea who she’s talking to, because I can’t hear her part of…
Have you ever wanted to be with someone so much that you took advantage of every opportunity to be with them? Maybe you felt this way when you were dating. you were so much in love, you wanted to spend as much time with them as you…
In Exodus chapter 32, Aaron and the people cross a line when they try to replace God with a golden calf. The moment they decide to build the idol, they cross the line from being servants of God to trying to be sovereign over their…