Unrelenting Trouble
Troubles can hit us like a storm whose relentless winds just keep pounding. We hunker down, praying desperate prayers that it will soon pass. These times become moments when faith is demonstrated by...
View ArticleHumility And Spiritual Warfare
“Humble yourselves…your adversary is seeking to devour you” (I Peter 5:6, 8). Included in this exhortation is to “cast your anxieties on Him…your adversary is seeking to devour you” (v. 7-8). Is not...
View ArticleThe Spirit Points To Jesus
The Spirit in us points to Jesus. Both Simeon and Ana had the Spirit speak through them about the infant Jesus (Luke 2:25-37). Jesus said, “When He the Spirit of Truth comes,…He will glorify me”...
View ArticleA Benediction For The Suffering
“And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power...
View ArticleGod Speaks
Our God is a speaking God. “He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel” Psalm 103:7. He who spoke in times past by prophets has now spoken finally and authoritatively...
View ArticleOvercoming Temptation
The statement made about Jesus, “He was without sin,” is about more than Jesus’ preparation as the unblemished sacrifice; it is also a pattern of victory He has laid down for us as our example. Christ...
View ArticleGood And Evil
God creates the good; evil is nothing but the distortion of the good. Evil must hide behind the good to make itself acceptable. This is why a wolf must wear sheep’s clothing. Evil’s promises wear...
View ArticleSilent Before Him
God is a complex Being. He is in a category all by Himself; angels, humans and other heavenly creatures are millions of light years in distance from His magnificence. He is far grander than we can...
View ArticleOur Baggage
We all are marked by the genetics of our ancestors. We have been shaped by positive and negative forces. We have made choices that have gone into making us who we are. We may have emotional scars...
View ArticleDisintegration Or Restoration
Our disordered passions end in disintegration. Unless we turn by repentance, that will end in death. “While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our...
View ArticleTurn The Page
The teacher was reading a story to a young child. As soon as the child would hear the opened page read, she would say, “Turn the page, teacher. Turn the page.” As we grow older, it may not always be...
View ArticleOur Sovereign Lord
God is so sovereign that He gives us freedom to choose. He does not always get His way with nations and men. He calls those who will work with Him. Greater than a god who controls all the choices of...
View ArticleGod Is Not Insecure
The One who planted the trees in the Garden of Eden gave humankind a choice. He is not insecure about our freedom. He is kind and patient with those who may be upset with Him. He is not unsettled...
View ArticleGod Models His Own Commands
The God revealed in Jesus of Nazareth does not ask us to do anything He has not already done. There is no sacrifice you make that He has not made. He who said, “Take up your cross” already took up...
View ArticleHearing god Or Hearing God
Humankind have a way of hearing a god who is not God commanding them. They say it is god, but it is not God. This god is one constructed by personal likes, dislikes, prejudices and fears, as well as...
View ArticleWashing Feet
When Jesus washed the disciples feet He asked them, “Do you know what I have done?” —meaning— “Do you know why I have done this?” It was surely bigger than an act to be enshrined as a sacrament. It...
View ArticleAtonement And The Spirit
Nothing skews our understanding of God’s reconciling atoning work like leaving the Holy Spirit out of the atonement equation. Atonement is the totality of who Christ is and what He has set in motion....
View ArticlePure Joy!?
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be...
View ArticleThe Lord Is Our Life
Israel was admonished to choose life over death and blessing over the curse (Deuteronomy 27-30). What we miss in this is that the Lord is our life as we obey His voice and hold fast to Him. “Choose...
View ArticleMaking The Unknown Known
In Acts 17:22-31 is the story of Paul’s sermon on Mar’s Hill about the Image to the Unknown God. In this sermon Paul reminded pagans that they were children of God; that their very existence was tied...
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