This message comes to us from the book of Isaiah. It is an old prophecy, yet the application is new, for our day and time, for your church and for mine! “You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to...
Faith, hope and love, Rains down from above, Angels shining like the stars, Pearls and rubies in their wings, Springs the rivers of delight. Our Father, Sits and listens, God, frankinsence and myrrh, Incense of prayers, Fragrance, Swirling, coiling, active, Whispers...
Last week, in Lessons from Ezekiel's Temple, Part 10B, we discovered that the presence of the sacrificial rooms in Ezekiel's temple, along with their tables, utensils and hooks, are to remind us of Jesus' sacrifice for us. They also serve to remind us that a Godly...
There was a work bee this morning, out at the barn where my boys and I ride. The place was literally "buzzing" as chain saws cut fence posts to length, skill saws sliced through boards for new stall doors, hammers pounded 4 inch nails into jump standards, and the...
"So go to the street corners and invite everyone you find to come to my feast.’" (Matthew 22:9, NCV) There is a tree not far from the covered patio behind my parents house. For years my mother has taken bread and other food, torn it into small pieces and thrown it out...
Today as I was cleaning my house I was thinking back to when I was a teenager and how I could do nothing all day and be perfectly happy, but now that I am an adult and have more responsibilities, I can’t help but feel restless and unproductive when I spend too much...
To conclude the series on Chile miners' saga, there are two more truths to be "mined"… Celebration… Oh yes, Chile rejoiced, so did the world at large at the safe passage of the 33 miners from "Death to life". Praise God at the "safe passage" of even one sinner from...
Do you ever wonder why Jesus is taking so long to return? The answer lies in the first book of Joshua: "But to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, 'Remember the command that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: "The Lord your...
Last week, in Lessons from Ezekiel's Temple, Part 13A, we discovered that the trickle of water emerging from Ezekiel's temple is a symbol of God's Spirit pouring through us. It then merges with that which pours through other Christians to become a raging torrent that...
A scribe was not easy to categorize. He loved learning, adored being taught and esteemed law. He admired the systems of law that underpinned the universe and society and his nation. He may have been a secretary or a teacher but if he was a teacher he was not expected...