For me to get to acceptance in the grieving process after my wife of almost three decades passed last year, I had to keep a forward focus or risk getting mired in memories. Any move from an old life to… Continue Reading →
If we are not engaging our whole selves while we sing, then the impact of a song’s words can often escape us. In “The Battle Belongs to the Lord,” we sing that God will fight for us in our battle,… Continue Reading →
Floating along with the current of culture, the church fell asleep in its complacency and compromise as the stream changed direction. Christians began to accept the world’s restrictions on our freedoms to worship and proclaim the gospel, and instead of… Continue Reading →
Movies do this often. The final words of a character are often very important. Having spent three years in Ephesus, it was understandable that when Paul needed to go to certain imprisonment and persecution in Jerusalem, he wanted to speak… Continue Reading →
Why was it so essential that Jesus be seated at the right hand of the Father and that we know that He is coming back? What is the work of the King of Kings that He does on our behalf… Continue Reading →
In the 50 days from Passover to Pentecost, Jesus was busy! The first 40 was spent the work of the gospel (Titus 3:5) and in convincing proofs that He indeed had overcome death (Acts 1:3). In the last 10, He… Continue Reading →
Elijah describes those who should have been God’s people in his day as “limping between two opinions.” That is a good way to describe those in the church that have grown complacent and compromised in their faith and the lost… Continue Reading →
In the story of Dr. Faustus, a man exchanges his soul to the devil for all that the world has to offer, but eventually payment comes due! How many believe themselves walking on the narrow path that leads to eternal… Continue Reading →
Loud is the world in its various forms and cluttered is our landscape with signs and advertising. It’s so hard to escape the bombardment–and still we fill our quiet time with TV in our homes and the radio in our… Continue Reading →
Since God is eternal without time, then what we know of time from creation to consummation is the smallest speck of dust on forever. And yet, the humanists of our culture have cancelled creation to rid our existence of sin… Continue Reading →
As more see the current trends in our culture, George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 have been selling well. What the Catholic apologist, Peter Kreeft, once said is quickly coming true: control language and you control thought; control thought and… Continue Reading →
Are those striving to live for God the problem in today’s world or those who have left His standard for their own? The wicked king Ahab tried to label the prophet Elijah a “troubler” but was quickly told that it… Continue Reading →
Last July, six year-old Bridger Walker threw himself in front of a mean dog to shield his little sister from certain death. After the dog tore open his face, he still got her to safety. When asked why he did… Continue Reading →
From Gethsemane through Calvary, we can see how Jesus, being fully man, became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him (Hebrews 5:7-9). Because of sin, man owed a debt to God he could not pay, so God… Continue Reading →
Loneliness was the first thing God found in His creation that was not good (Genesis 2:18). Today, it continues to be one of mankind’s biggest struggles and leads us to many sins, addictions, and negative coping mechanisms. Being fully man,… Continue Reading →
After the moral decline of Solomon’s reign and Reheboam’s unwise decision that split God’s people, his grandson, Asa, made a courageous move to rid Judah of its idolatry and return them to God (2 Chronicles 14). What will God do… Continue Reading →
For much of our nation’s history, Christians could float with the current of culture as it was going generally in the same direction we wanted to go. Christianity was ‘mainstream’–literally! But, several decades ago, while complacency and compromise with things… Continue Reading →
For many generations, the church in the West has been able to float lazily along on an inner tube because the current of culture was flowing in roughly the same direction. And so, we fell asleep, not realizing that in… Continue Reading →
In our relationship with God as in our earthly relationships, we would all insist that we love the other, but to what degree do we love? The transition to love for God begins when we recognize ourselves in the first… Continue Reading →
Writing just decades before the Northern Kingdom was taken into captivity, Amos attributed its decline to the sins of Jeroboam two centuries before (Amos 7:8-11). This is how any nation ends that doesn’t put God first. From a study Bible… Continue Reading →
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