Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
The Age of Drugs, mRNA, et al
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air, and exercise.* Thomas A Edison (1847 - 1931) *This is not precisely what Edison said. But you get the idea.
Sabbath
I ask the LORD for one thing. One thing only do I want. To live in the LORD’s house all my life, to marvel there at His goodness, and to ask for His guidance. In times of trouble He will shelter me; He will keep me safe in His Temple and make me secure on a high rock....
Fret Not
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. From the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 6:33-34 NLT It's...
Miracles
"I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart.” Augustine (also "Augustine of Hippo" and "Saint Augustine") (354 - 430)
Yield
You become the slave of whatever you choose to obey. You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death. Or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteousness. Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with Christ. We are no longer...
Convicted
Moses: "Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life." Deuteronomy 30:19 Joshua: "But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose...
Pleasing To God
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14 NLT
Instant Gratification, Power, Mass Formation, And Useful Idiots (Note 1)
One of these is not like the other: “The distinction between following what you believe to be right and looking for what is right.” “People who have their eyes open understand that things are disturbed at a spiritual level. It is not merely political. The disturbance...
Shabbat Shalom
We sometimes question what it means to observe the Lord’s Sabbath. Joe Lieberman (1942 - 2024) is an example we can learn from. Even as a US Senator, Lieberman never compromised his Jewish faith and his practice of a traditional Jewish Sabbath. Senate business, even...
COG* /5 An Inheritance Of Incalculable Value
And so we should not be like cringing, fearful slaves, but we should behave like God’s very own children, adopted into the bosom of His family, and calling to Him, “Abba, Father.” For His Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we really are...
COG* /4 – A Level of Consciousness
Most of us live at the level of conscious awareness. Consciously serving and consciously devoted to God. Christian maturity is produced in the life of a Child of God at the unconscious level, where we are so totally surrendered to God that we are not even aware of...
COG* /3 – Holy Glad
Sooner or later, sin will strip and rob you of everything that is truly beautiful and desirable. You’ve felt it. You know it. You’ve wished you hadn’t, you’ve wished you could stop, you’ve wished you weren’t like this. But if you are a Child of God, you were redeemed...
COG* /2 – A Child Of God
You sum up the whole of the New Testament (the "Good News") if you describe it as the knowledge of God as one’s holy Father. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being a Child of God, and of...
COG* /1 – The Love Of The Father
See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are Children of God because they don’t know Him. 1 John 3:1 NLT We are not just "cogs" in a wheel. We are...
Death Is Coming. Life Has A Purpose.
Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age....
Death Is Coming. Life Has A Purpose.
Today you are about to engage in battle with your enemies. Do not be cowardly. Do not be afraid, alarmed, or terrified because of them. For the Lord your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies and to give you victory. Deuteronomy 20:3b-4
Death Is Coming. Life Has A Purpose.
The Christian Mission Statement is to know God and to make Him known. To know God is to be in fellowship with Him in the style of Abraham and Moses, with ears to hear and wisdom to obey. To make Him known is to evangelize and disciple (the Great Commission) in the...
Death Is Coming. Life Has A Purpose.
And Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ These two commands are pegs. Everything in God's...
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