Your circumstances to not form who you are. How you respond to your circumstances is what creates who you become. Leaders are people who at some point have made courageous decisions, and have not given up on the targets of those choices. It is easy to pick leaders out. They are going somewhere. Who is the person who fears the […]
I had two interesting encounters this week. One was with a Marxist, who, between racist insults and questions he jabbed me with but refused to listen to my answers to, told me that he has a god-given ability in himself to know what is right in every situation. He added that anyone who disagreed with what he could perceive to […]
Jesus knew the Scriptures and what they meant and implied better than men whose lives had been spent being taught by their rabbis what to believe and to teach. This was true because His personal Tutor was His Father. He would love to be your personal Tutor. What is in your heart that you would like to know? What is […]
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 […]
When a messenger from Yahweh spoke to Cornelius (Acts 10:1-8), there is no indication that he had experienced anything like it previously. Still, he received and obeyed the instructions he was given by the angel, sending to Joppa for Peter to come to his home. As part of the same event being set up, Peter saw a vision of a […]
Psalm 37 is a wealth of proverbs contrasting evil behavior to righteousness. Several times it promises that patient humility will cause land and wealth to be handed over to a servant of Yahweh. The first benefit, though, is that we possess our own souls. Our minds and hearts become ours, freed to be gifted to our Lord. By your patience […]
In 1738, Daniel Bernoulli published a book – Hydrodynamica. It stated theories from his studies of fluids and gasses. Some of the ideas he presented regarding liquid flow and the dynamics of pressure caused by the effects of the shapes and sizes of pipes were later used by inventors to understand and subsequently harness the power of air flow to […]
What are the most valuable benefits you have received in meetings of believers? Imagine having those benefits available at family gatherings. Or imagine inviting people to your home for a meal or party and having those things happen. Imagine who you could invite to an event like that. They would not have to be members of the congregation where your […]
And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.(2 Corinthians 5:15 HCSB ©®) One reason Jesus was tortured to death was so that I would not live for me anymore, but for Him. That should impose drastic changes on my to-do lists. […]
I can’t measure my week or my years or my life by what I have accomplished. I can only honestly measure the value of my times based on the answer to the question, “Did I do what I was told to do?” That means that if I can’t really list much that I have succeeded in, but can truly say […]