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And They’re Off!
It is Kentucky Derby Day. The most exciting two minutes in sports. That means Mint Juleps and Hot Browns. The Derby is an iconic event that captures the imagination of horseracing fans, and that revels in pomp, pageantry, and tradition. A few thoughts on the Derby:...
More Truth
How joyful are those who fear the Lord, who stand in awe of God, who follow wherever He leads, committed in their hearts. You shall eat of the fruit of your labor. Blessed shall you be, and it shall be well with you. Your wife will be like a healthy vine producing...
The Binary Truth Of Things
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Adapted, Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) (Note 1) In our pagan (post Judeo-Christian) world, truth is not a value. For example, the belief that there are more...
Ears To Hear
When I pray, I talk to God, but when I read the Bible, God talks to me. Dwight L. Moody (1837 - 1899)
An Rx For Sorrow
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath, and a glass of wine" is a common meme on sorrow often attributed to Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274). There are at least two problems with this meme. First, there is no citation confirming Aquinas as the source and the...
Hope
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel (1936 - 2011)
Hands Lifted In Worship
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of Heaven and earth. Acts 17:24 Hands lifted in praise to God acknowledge that someone exists who’s greater than you. That He is reaching down with an outstretched hand, and you’re responding to Him in faith....
At The Beginning Of The Day
It is our habit to spend time in the presence of God at the beginning of each day (a 'First Fruits Qadash', see here: https://bit.ly/4c3uScN). We are not always successful in this endeavor, but we continue to run the race. At the beginning of our morning Qadash, as...
Things I’ve Learned
“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. But anyone...
My Extended Family
Say what? I am the half-brother of Jesus? The Jesus who is a High Priest in the Order of Melchizedek? Whoa. Selah.
Truth
Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
Sinful Deceptions
There are two deceptions that turn churches from centers of redemption to societies for self-improvement: Belief in the essential goodness of man; and Belief in the endless tolerance of God. As a result of these deceptions we have lost our capacity to know truth and...
The Lord Of Your Life
But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve …..But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 NIV It is one thing to speak of God’s greatness in a general sense. To intellectually...
The Cross: The Collision Of God And Sin | Good News
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the Cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. 1 Peter 2:24 NASB 1995 The heart of salvation is the Cross of Jesus Christ. It is the place where God and sinful man met with a...
The Cross: Crucifixion And Resurrection
My Lord, I marvel that, fully God, you also became fully man, and were willingly crucified on a Roman Cross for my sins. The empty tomb calls forth my adoring wonder, for thou art indeed risen. The four-fold gospel attests it, the living witnesses prove it, and my...
The Cross: Saturday, Jerusalem, Circa 33 AD
A Day Like Any Other It is the Jewish Sabbath. The city is quiet. The air above the city lacks the usual thousand little trails of smoke from cookfires. Hymns rise from the temple. Families are indoors. The soldiers are back in their barracks. The Chief Priest grows...
The Cross
God showed His love for us in that, while we were still sinners, the Lamb of God died on the Cross for us. Therefore, since we are now acquitted and brought into right relationship with God by Christ’s blood, how much more certain is it that we shall be saved by Him...
The Cross: It Is Finished
Friday, Jerusalem, Circa 33 AD He cannot do anything deliberate now. The strain of His whole weight on His outstretched arms hurts too much. The pain fills Him up, displaces thought, as much for Him as it has for everyone else who has ever been nailed to one of these...
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