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Rest in Peace

“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 1:2 “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:1 “Requiescat in pace” is the oft-expressed Latin phrase for the familiar “RIP” used in »

Hide and Seek

“Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame. Romans 10:11 When my oldest daughter was two years old, she and I were playing hide-and-seek in the walled backyard of our home in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was her turn to hide, and she couldn’t find a hiding place »

God Is Simply God

“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come »

Is It That Important?

Jesus asked, “Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed, and walk’? Mark 2:9 In this life, some people are the prisoners of physical maladies such as blindness, deafness, crippled limbs, incapacitating mental syndromes, debilitating, and even lethal »

The Interminable Wail

“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of Him. Even so. Amen.” Revelation 1:7 Bad habits often linger. I have a terrible habit of sometimes spontaneously letting out a »

“Nothing!” Really?

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye…” 1 Corinthians 15:52, Luke 16:19-31, and Luke 23:43 Take one final breath, and no more air fills your lungs. What then? What is the next thought, next sight, next feeling, if there is one, or is there just nothing? With no »

One Among Many

“In His hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.” Job 12:10 You are a member of the human race. That numbers you as one mere person among a vast cloud of innumerable people constituting an entire population, which includes every era from Adam and »

Elusive Satisfaction

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’” Matthew 11:16-17 If you believe the dictionary definition of »

Good and Evil

“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13 A battle »

Blast from the Past

“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin »

Enemy Discernment in 2026

“But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” -Hebrews 5:14 The American G.I. Rifleman Doug Hester tumbled out of the beach landing craft with his fellow Infantry soldiers into the same path of three »

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