What Now 2 Do

Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?

Wisdom

Those with wisdom learn from the mistakes of others. And from their own.

Giants

There are giants in the land and I am just a grasshopper. But God.

“I’m Going To Be Praying For You.” Jesus, 33 AD

Jesus is our High Priest, our Intercessor and Advocate to God. Put simply, Jesus is praying for us. For you. For me. The picture of Jesus praying for us is found in God’s Word at John 17:6-28, Christ’s High Priestly Prayer. As Jesus prepared to fulfill His mission on...

Spirtual Formation

Search me, O God, and know my heart;test me and know my anxious thoughts.Point out anything in me that offends you,and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalm 139:23-24 NLT

Three Conjoined Thoughts

1 This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 CSB 2 How to live out the gratitude? Listen to the words of Jesus himself when asked about the greatest of the commandments: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all...

A Pilgrim’s Song

For the Lord God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right. O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, what joy for those who trust in you. Psalm 84:11-12 NLT Selah #psalms

God and Expectations

My relationship with God does not revolve around my expectations of God. It revolves around trying to know and do what God expects of me. Operative question: What is God's will in this situation? Align my will with God’s. #humilitas

Do You Believe In God (Part 1)?

When people speak of faith or belief in God, they are almost always referring to belief in God’s existence. “Do you believe in God?” means “Do you believe God exists?” The existence of God is never a question in the Bible. After all, whose Word is it? Biblical faith...

Fruit Of The Spirit, Continued

"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing." John 15:5 NKJV Abiding in Christ means living in unhindered fellowship with our Lord, walking with Him, talking with Him, confessing our...

No Compromise

Exalt the cross in the gathering darkness. The cross is not simply part of our message to the world, but rightly understood it is the whole of it. Be faithful in your calling. Shine as a light in the world. It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed,...

The Fruit Of The Spirit

The Fruit of the Spirit is evidence of God’s conforming us to the image of Christ. There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy. Today’s weakness becomes tomorrow’s strength. Which Fruit of The Spirit would you like to see increase in your...

Choices

There is a time for joking around and a time for seriousness; this is not one of them.

Fear Not, Continued

Fight on for God. Hold tightly to the eternal life that God has given you and that you have confessed with such a ringing confession before many witnesses. 1 Timothy 6:12. TLB Historically, when navies were engaged in combat and one side had reached the point of...

I Will Not Fear

The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.What can man do to me? Psalm 118:6 NIV In Exodus 1 we see the story of two midwives defieing the King's order: "But the midwives feared God and did not do as the King of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live."...