Leave Them Alone!

Then Pharisees and scribes came from Jerusalem to Jesus and asked, “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat!”He answered them, “And why do you break God’s commandment because of your tradition? For God said: Honor your father and your mother; and, the one who speaks evil of father […]

Threading a Needle With Your Life

Matthew 19:16-30 I have been told that there is a small, low gate in Jerusalem that can only be passed through by a camel that crawls on its knees. This was invented by some theologian to explain how Jesus could possibly state that rich men are not likely to get saved and go to Heaven. Since Jesus was not talking […]

Nation, Then Kingdom

“Therefore,” He said to them, “every student of Scripture instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who brings out of his storeroom what is new and what is old.”(Matthew 13:52 HCSB ©®) Israel’s descendants became a nation when Yahweh drew them out of slavery in Egypt. What came after the nation of Israel was the Kingdom of […]

Being Anchored

Being “anchored” in our lives can mean good things and bad things. Apologists want us to be anchored in good theology. Investors want us to be anchored in good stocks. Football coaches want us to be anchored in the fundamentals. Church leaders want us to be anchored in a good church. When the sailors who were with Paul in a […]

Meeting With Jesus

Thomas Sowell is quoted as having said, “People who love meetings should not be in charge of anything.” After we have been in a typical meeting with other believers, can anyone look at us and gather any evidence that we have just spent time with a Person Who was raised from the grave after paying a ransom to deliver us […]

Invitations

I had the privilege of accompanying a few different groups of young servants through the streets and alleys of a section of Columbia, SC called Five Points on some Friday and Saturday nights for a while. The area is downhill from the main campus of the University of South Carolina, and is full of bars, restaurants and dance clubs. People […]

Devoted to Religion

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others. Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, yet gulp down a camel! “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You […]

Interesting

The church is interested in the church a great deal. The church is not interested in the King or His Kingdom. It does take some interest in the Savior. In some of the bad cases of interest, indulgences and masses and prayers and riches are sold to those who have not heard that salvation is actually the gift of God. […]

Being Leaders

The best leaders I have seen became leaders by discovering their true identities and walking in them. Someone who has gained from the Spirit of Jesus who He says they are and who is determined to walk in that identity will stand out among the fearful, the doubtful, the hateful and the proud. Their light and their manifestations of Life […]