If you have ever been to a football game (or Sunday service), you have seen people leave before the end because they are bored and want to get somewhere else in a hurry. Or they want to at least get there before the Baptists down the street. Those people are not there because they are dedicated or excited. Get excited […]
It is pitiful that some people only want enough of Jesus to keep them out of the lake of fire. It is maybe more pitiful that there are religious people who for centuries have been offering that level of a relationship with clear conscience. I am hoping to gain enough of Jesus to always have a holy fire burning in […]
What benefit does our Father gain by filling us with His Spirit? What benefit would you gain by submitting to Him and being filled with His Spirit? What would it cost you to be filled with His Spirit, with regard to how it would affect your life, your relationships, your work and your rest? What costs are you willing to […]
Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.(Romans 12:1-2 […]
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, in Christ; for He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His […]
My sister and I now own our parents’ home. Yesterday, in the third hour of cutting grass there, I was thinking of the many hours I did a ratty job of cutting the grass in that yard as a child. Now, my parents gain no benefit from watching me do a very good job of it. Then, they were annoyed […]
If you get worried about current events, be certain to include in your array of thoughts that the First-born of our family was raised from the dead. Are You not from everlasting,O LORD, my God, my Holy One?We will not die.O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment;O Rock, You have established them for correction.Your eyes are too pure […]
We will not always do well if our measure of promotion and reward comes from the structure of corporations and denominations and military. We will likely be discouraged and lost, in fact. If you want to paint a big picture you need a big canvas to paint it on. If our measures are able to encompass eternity and martyrdom and […]
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 […]
Nehemiah did not finish rebuilding a wall around Jerusalem by focusing on answering Tobiah and Sanballat. His focus was on the honor of his God and on the memory of his ancestors. Sanballat and every other distraction and distress were answered, but sometimes simply by being told there was no time to waste answering them. Our success in the lives […]