Sin's Repeat: The Energizer Bunny
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race which is set before us." - Hebrews 12:1 King Saul could not keep from trying to kill »
Taking Your Own Life
"For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." - Romans 14:7-8 Suicide is »
Believing the Big Lie
"For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie." - 2 Thessalonians 2:11 To be human, it is safe to say, is to have the capacity to believe the lie. All of us have believed lies in our past, no matter how well »
Greener Grass
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We’ve all been there. Your child comes home from school raving about their friend’s brand new car and simultaneously makes you feel like a failure of a parent. Feeling the jealousy rushing in, you ask yourself, How can her parents afford that? Jealousy quickly turns to judgment as you attempt »
And The Sea Was No More
“Then I saw a new heaven and earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. Revelation 21:1 Born in California, the sea has been in my blood from an early age, as it is in my father’s. Raised in Colorado, »
Personal Meditation: All Too Rare
"My meditation of Him shall be sweet." - Psalm 104:34 Meditation in this present day may well be a lost miracle. In these feverish days there is little doubt to the wise Christian thinker that he needs to be spending time meditating; deep meditation on the right subject, or should »
Missing Mercy
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." - Matthew 6:12 Most probably we are missing mercy from God in our daily lives, because we have been unwilling to forgive just as He has asked us to do, in order that His forgiveness of us might »
The Soul's Mirror
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 5:3 A mirror shows your physical characteristics, every wart, bump, and defect, especially just after stepping out of the shower or bath. But it cannot give any measurement of your soul, just as a camera »
No Little People
"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground outside your Father's care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." - Matthew 10:29-31 Doing my “through »
Secret Sins
"But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out." - Numbers 32:23 What you do in the dark, stays in the dark! So you are led to believe by your own sense of things as you »
Your Essential Fellows
"And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching, and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul." Acts 2:42 "Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a »
Wineskin in the Smoke
"For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes." - Psalm 119:83 "If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit!" So railed Defense Attorney Johnnie Cochran in OJ Simpson's famous murder trial. Leather gloves soaked in blood were found near the murder »
