If I stand long enough in the rain, my skin will wrinkle, my body temperature will get lower, and if I was 20 again, my hair would get annoyingly curly. If I stand long enough in the sun, my body temperature will increase, my skin will get sweaty, turn red as it burns, and after enough radiation, may become cancerous. […]
Many things that Jesus has said previously and things He says today bounce off our hearts and minds without any effect, because our hearts are hard. In the discourse below, the religious people thought they understood what Jesus was saying to them. It is easy for us to see how confused and misled they were by their satisfaction with their […]
Fifty years ago, a person’s “world view,” that set of values and morals and sense of responsibility or lack of it that a person’s life decisions are built out of, was “set” by the age of 18 or so. Twenty years ago, the age had dropped to 15 or so. Now, I think it has dropped to 13 or so. […]
Am I a soldier of the cross,A follow’r of the Lamb?And shall I fear to own His cause,Or blush to speak His name? Must I be carried to the skiesOn flow’ry beds of ease,While others fought to win the prize,And sailed through bloody seas? Are there no foes for me to face?Must I not stem the flood?Is this vile world […]
Cause us to succeed at following this instruction to Your colonists, Lord. Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to […]
It seems that humans are typically self-centered, with a will to control those they encounter. It seems that what Jesus described as the two laws in which every other law from Heaven were enveloped would say we should be different. And most of the Scriptural explanations of those two laws seem to indicate we should be Jesus-centered, with a will […]
Contemplate, please, the difference between believing that my life belongs to me, and that I should find a way to fit a relationship with Jesus into it, and believing that my life belongs to Jesus, and that I should find a way to a relationship with Jesus that makes me able to live the life in a responsible way. For […]
Humility is not cowardice. Fear will not make me humble. Faith will. Love will. Confidence will. Patience will. Allowing the fruit of the Spirit of Jesus to give me the power to be humble will give me access to grace, which is His power. But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:God resists the proud,but gives grace to the humble.(James […]
When you write a check to pay a bill, you are not focused on the debt, but on the payment. The value of the check is sufficient to overcome the strength of the demand for payment. When we pray with more confidence in the strength of the need than in the likelihood of an answer being sufficient, we are bending […]
How much of what you do today will be any different from what you did the same day last week? How much will really require that you have to reason through an issue? Even deeper – how much will you feel that you need to pray for direction in if you expect to get it right? Most of what we […]