"Cursed before the LORD is the man who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: 'At the cost of his firstborn son will he lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest will he set up its gates.'" (Josh 6:26) After the fall of Jericho, Joshua, under the inspiration...
Welcome to the world of reality. Many have been running through this land, this place of realities with no resting place, no oasis in your desert. Maybe you've been in a testing place, maybe you've had your share of misery. My wife and I have, with the sudden death of...
What does it mean to really be a follower of Christ? What does it involve to be a true "Christian" in the literal sense of the word? The best definition I ever found was given by Jesus Himself in Mark 8:34 "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take...
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. LET US FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS, the author and perfecter...
"Movin' on Up" is the theme song of the television sitcom "The Jeffersons" where George Jefferson worked very hard with his dry cleaning business so that he could move his family to a "deluxe apartment in the sky". There have been many through the ages and still are...
“Thanks be to God – through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Rom. 7:25). They were everywhere. In the cereal boxes, crawling over the countertops, drowning in the sinks, buried in the sofas, falling from the ceiling . . . It seemed like the more I squished, the...
“For a child to become clean, something else must become dirty.” Laws of Parenting, #2 I read the previous statement in an email recently and as I considered it among the others statements I could not help but realize how true this was. It was meant to be humorous and...
Just like the physical Gehenna in the valley of Hinnom was a garbage dump, the lake of fire is an eternal garbage dump, because if people won't come to God to be a lover of God, they are good for what? Nothing, but to be disposed of in the lake of fire, and that...
Jigsaw puzzles have never been my thing. I am blind to the little clues so I empathize with the man reading the Bible when Philip said to him, "Do you understand what you are reading?" And he replied, "How can I without someone to guide me?" Yet he was a man who knew...
Somebody said that if God were truly scientific, he would have written the Book of Genesis as a scientific formula. Maybe, but it would create a dilemma. Unless we all held doctorates in science we could not understand anything about it. It would be a closed book to...