Inventors who take the lead in creating what replaces their most recent or their most successful inventions get to continue to surf. Those who just coast to the end of the wave to the beach are just beached. Abraham was told by Yahweh that he would have a son by Sarah. A couple of decades later he did. He was […]
Being afraid of peer pressure can harm you two ways. One is that you are under the power of “the herd” and its grand lack of wisdom. If the herd is under the influence of a fool or a tyrant or a devil, that will become your master. The other is that you don’t have the power to influence your […]
If we are accused of evil behavior or intent, we have choices regarding our defense. We can argue our innocence, attempting to convince those who have heard or made the accusations that we are not guilty. Maybe we are guilty, and we can argue our reasons for the actions, hoping to be excused. We could take the battle onto the […]
…until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into a mature man with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness. Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit. But speaking the […]
Now, when I went to Troas to spread good news about Messiah, because a door had been opened to me by the Lord, I could not rest, because I could not find my brother Titus. So I left the people there and went on to Macedonia. But thanks be to God, Who always leads us in a procession of victory, […]
Hiding from Jesus is always a mistake. To be protected from the Giver of Life is a terribly unsafe place. When we gather with people in hopes of spending time with Jesus and being influenced by His Spirit, the atmosphere is improved when we are all on the front row, and when we are all involved in the possibility of […]
E. Stanley Jones, servant of Jesus in India and many other places, said that the motto he held for life was, “Not able to do it, but enabled.” We need to work out our salvation. We are not, however able to. We are, however enabled to, because it is the Spirit of Jesus Who works in us to be able […]
Some people have called Sunday mornings in America its most segregated hour, upset at the familial and cultural separation of the body of Christ. Each congregation has a limited manifestation of the body – black congregations, Hispanic congregations, poor, rich, European, Asian, et cetera… Further separation is based on favorite teachings, heresies and arguments. Armenians, Calvinists, Lutherans, Romans, Greeks, Anglicans, […]
Does any of you who has a complaint against someone dare go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels—not to […]
This is how a story should have gone: I was walking this afternoon for exercise. A vehicle approached me from behind, and a fool threw her large paper cup from a fast food restaurant that was filled with Pepsi at me and it scared me as it exploded on my left shoulder and drenched my left ear and neck and […]