Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
A Purpose and A Plan
Why does God lengthen our days in the land of the living? Is it so we might have time to revel in the pleasures of this vain world? To chase the butterflies of earthly riches and honor? It cannot be. Wise masters do not give their servants such tasks as will not...
The Lord’s Day
There are two key differences between the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sabbath. The first is obvious. Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, is celebrated on Saturday, the seventh day of the week. The Christian Sabbath, The Lord's Day, is celebrated on the first day of the...
Be A Cross-Bearer: Push Back
Would that my ways were firm in keeping Your laws; then I would not be ashamed when I regard all Your commandments [Oh, that my steps might be steady, keeping to the course you set; Then I'd never have any regrets in comparing my life with your counsel]. (Psalm...
Prayer and Surrender
God intentionally waits to answer our prayers until we're in a position to accept His guidance. Put another way, He wants us to be willing and able to do as He says. Think about it. Jesus made Himself available to His disciples, but they had to choose to follow Him...
On Prayer
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 1 John 5:14 NIV Has your desperate prayer remained unanswered? Have you prayed, yet you seem to get no response or movement? God’s delay is never due to...
The Consequence Of Evil
"This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah's cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them because of the evil they committed to anger me, by going and burning...
The Irony of Wisdom
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. Isabel Allende
Memo To Self
Memo: To SelfSubject: InfallibilityDate: Today Every Christian has to decide this question: Is Jesus Christ’s mind infallible, or is the modern Western mind infallible? The tendency today is to think ourselves infallible, and the Bible a jumble of the most...
Shabbat Shalom
And evening passed and morning came, marking a new day. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:31 This is the day that the Lord has made. And not just any day. A Sabbath. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 For the reverence and fear of God are basic to...
Attitude Attitude Attitude
Think the glasses have attitude? Read about the designer. Iris Apfel will celebrate her 100th birthday tomorrow, still working as a sought-after designer of eyeglasses and more. What an example to all of us. "If I stopped working, I'd be gone." "More is more and less...
No Words
I felt my anger risingWhen I saw the towers fallI’ve been through quakes and firesAnd I thought I’d seen it all. I felt the nation rumbleWhen that Ryder Truck explodedAnd all the retching terrorWhen some maniac unloaded I mourned and prayed for thousandsAs I saw the...
I Believe
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C S Lewis, The Weight Of Glory
Table For Four, Please
Restaurant Host: Hello.Me: Hi, table for four, please.Host: Sure, and your name.Me: Smith.Host: Great. And do you and your guests have your vaccination cards?Me: Hmmm, well first… Can you tell us who our server will be?Host: Um, looks like Brad will be your server...
Your Inheritance
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in...
Evil: A Primer
Against you, and you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just. Psalm 51:4 There is much evil afoot. But what exactly is evil? Anything that contradicts the holy...
Spiritual Rest
Spiritual rest is not a hallowed feeling that comes over us in church. It’s the repose of a heart set deep in God. Henry Drummond
Beclowned
The practice of idolatry ensnares those who participate in it by deceiving them so well that they are no longer able to ask, is there not a lie in my right hand? Isaiah 44:20 Two observations on the Afghan debacle. First, and most important, we are all Afghanis now....
Priceless
Gifts Of Great Value: gold, frankincense, myrrh. A Gift Of Incalculable Value: a knowledge of Jesus Christ.
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