“For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.” (Isa 18:5) I don't know about you, but pruning knives, being cut down,...
All my life (almost) I have heard it said that the most important thing in one's life is getting to heaven. Parishioners have said to me, "I don't care about having some palace in heaven like the Apostle Paul will have; he suffered so much for Christ, beaten and...
"But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." (Romans 8.28) When I was in grade school, I learned about a city in the south which built a statue to the Boll Weevil. In case you don't...
" . . .The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me." (Isa 49:14) A common theme that often emerges as I read through the daily prayer requests in this newsletter is one of despair. "I feel so far from God!" "I need to know God cares, because it doesn't...
"For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." (Habakkuk 2:3) How could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land? Ps: 137:4 The...
"Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:27 There is no way to make this "hard saying" softer. However, the context of this saying of Jesus in Luke gives us grounds to think about it in terms of mundane, practical advise...
My name is... I was born in 2010. I am a Christian.I was playing outside when they came. I tried to run But the wheels were faster than my little feet. They tied me to a fence; I couldn't escape. They murdered my parents and protectors before my little eyes. I watched...
With arms open wide, Jesus suffered and died; And not one word of revenge did He speak. With His flesh torn apart, we remained in His heart; He kept silent and turned the other cheek. And while He hung on that cross, we remained on His mind. He bore the sins of the...
Do you feel like you are being threshed like wheat or some other plant? Are there so many things going on in your life that you think you can't bear one more bad thing? Read what the prophet Isaiah wrote: Isaiah 28:26-29 (NLT) "The farmer knows just what to do,...
In some military or other fraternal organizations, we often hear of a select group of elite members among them, people of surpassing excellence, people that are often proud to proclaim to be part of some special affiliation like The Fellowship of the Ring, The...