Thanksgiving in Bitter Root
Today is Thanksgiving. Allowing and feeding a bitter root within your heart will breed ingratitude and thoughtlessness toward God, this God who is responsible for EVERY good thing in your life (James 1:17).
Thanksgiving Redux
“One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. Luke 17:15-16 As you get into the full swing of Christmas gift shopping, I am fairly sure most of you »
Is the Word of the Lord rare where you are?
“In those days the Word of the Lord was rare. I Samuel 3:1 It is ironic that with the great availability today of Bible’s in America and the West, with such an abundance of churches and mega-churches, Christian TV and radio, that in the Public Square the Word of the »
The Spirit of Christmas
“While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for him in the inn. Luke 2:6-7 “But when the time had »
Choose: The Daily Test of Sincere Faith
“Choose you this day whom you will serve; but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 Much is written today in Christian circles of the need to emphasize the wonder and abundance of God’s grace. And so it is. It overwhelms sin and penetrates »
I Am Not Consumed
“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:23, 24 What is it in your life that is more consuming than anything else; that is, that renders your life hopeless, and you don’t »
Not Good To Be Alone
Genesis 2:18: "The Lord God said, 'It is not good for man to be alone.’" In conversation with a good friend who has his own landscaping business, he bemoaned the difficulties of managing, not plants or flowers or trees or lawns, but people! He once had three or four people »
What If Today Were Your Last?
Many memories remain in my mind of a year in my life surrounded by the fog and violence of war tramping the jungles of a far off place, Vietnam. This is one: as an Infantry Platoon Leader I was constantly on the lookout for any soldier who had the skills »
Keeping Yet Kept
“To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father, and kept by Jesus Christ…..Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life……To Him who is able to keep you from falling. Jude 1, »
Child Martyrs
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 “When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the »
The Trouble With Normal
“We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Romans 7:14-15 You do not live in constant crisis, though »
A Good Name
“A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. Proverbs 22:1 This was his life verse, and he taught by his life and by his instruction to thousands of youth and others of the principles in life which bring forth “a »
