Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
A Word From Our Sponsor
The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NASB)
Consecration and Sanctification
Consecration (being dedicated to God’s service) is our part. Sanctification (being set apart from sin and being made holy) is God’s part. We must make a deliberate determination to be interested only in what God is interested. When faced with a perplexing problem, the...
Advent, 2020
On this, the first Sunday of Advent, this word from the Prophet Isaiah: In the last days, the mountain of the Lord's housewill be the highest of all, the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills, and people from all over the world will...
On Sin
Every believer needs to periodically be given a fresh glimpse of indwelling sin. When we cease to appreciate the seriousness of our sin, we also cease to appreciate the cost and wonder of Christ's atoning sacrifice on the cross.
Achieving Spiritual Growth And Maturity
Practice forgiveness and forbearance in the everyday, spilled-milk situations of your life. Then you will be ready and able to forgive when the stakes become truly life changing.
On Wisdom
Either we trust God by affirming the entirety of his revealed wisdom, or we play God by deciding what he got wrong.
Obedience, and Trust Bring The Breakthrough
The vessels of mercy are first seasoned with affliction, and then the wine of glory is poured in. Thomas Watson, 1620 - 1686 Life is all about gaining spiritual maturity, and spiritual maturity is tested and perfected through trials. The path to blessing and honor...
On Gratitude And Love This Thanksgiving Week
A Debt Of Gratitude Thanksgiving is a debt. It is something we owe. When we bring our thanks before God, we are recognizing Him as the source of every blessing, every protection, every heartbeat, every rescue from every trial, even when His chosen form of deliverance...
On Worldview
We live in a post Christian world. Western Judeo Christianity has fallen away from the Biblical Worldview and moral relativism has pushed truth aside. This phenomenon is described perfectly in a quote from Rick Warren (Senior Pastor, Saddleback Church): “The crumbling...
On Love
God: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like it: Love your neighbor as you love yourself. The whole Law of Moses and...
On Security and Insecurity
An Affirmation: Secure in God's love, I will not surrender my self-worth to the opinions and judgments of others. When I am rejected, I will not retaliate. When I am hurt, I will allow God to heal me. Knowing the pain of rejection, I will seek to love those who suffer...
God’s Mulligan: Amazing Grace
Wikipedia, with whom I have a love hate relationship, defines a mulligan as "a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder." Here is what the Bible, a somewhat more authoritive resource than Wikipedia,...
The Return / A Certain Trumpet / Day 14
A Kairos Moment Let us pray. Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty expanse. Praise Him for His mighty deeds; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness…Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord! Father in...
The Return / A Certain Trumpet / Day 13
From Despair To Hope Father God, O may Your glorious name be blessed and exalted above all blessing and praise! Forgive us for our feelings of hopelessness and fear. Forgive us for taking our eyes off You by conforming to the world, hoping for satisfaction and peace....
The Return / A Certain Trumpet / Day 12 / Vespers
Waiting On God Dear Lord, Your word says that You LORD are good to those who wait for You, to the people who seek You. (Lamentations 3:25) We pray as Hannah prayed after waiting on your timing: "Our heart exults in the Lord; our horn is exalted...
The Return / A Certain Trumpet / Day 11
Waiting on God Precious LORD, our Creator, our Healer, our Provider, God Most High, we come before you praying for our country and waiting to see you act. Your word says that you LORD are good to those who wait for You, to the person who seeks You.It is good that we...
The Return / A Certain Trumpet / Day 10
Almighty God, our Father in heaven, maker of heaven and earth, to You be the glory. Worthy are You, our Lord, and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; For...
The Return / A Certain Trumpet / Day 9 / Vespers
Dear Lord, we know the wickedness of America and that every imagining of the thoughts of our heart is evil continually. Lord we desire the promise that though our sins are like scarlet, You will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, You will...
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