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"Swiftly pass the clouds of glory, Heaven's voice, the dazzling light; Moses and Elijah vanish; Christ alone commands the height! Peter, James, and John fall silent, Turning from the summit's rise, Downward toward the shadowed valley, Where their Lord has fixed His...
I don't know why certain things make me nervous, but they do. Take, for example, the little dinner party I had planned for our neighbours yesterday. When I awoke yesterday morning, I was literally shaking, even though I had already done all the work in advance! And...
I didn't know Jesus as my Lord and Savior when I was a child. I remember when I was back in Cambodia, I used to hear my sister say, "I hate that person so and so, I hate his generation and all of his generation after him!" Even though I wasn't a follower of Jesus at...
The Bible tells us to rejoice in our suffering (See James 1:2-5; Rom 3:3-5) and to give thanks to the Lord in ALL things (See 1 Thess. 5:17; Col. 3:17). Why is it that we have so much trouble doing that? I mean, I don't know about you, but in the face of a job loss, a...
Last Saturday, in "Giving god the Praise, Part 1: How Much is Enough", we came to understand that it is important that we praise God with at least the same intensity that we pray for our miracle. Wait. Why should we have to say thanks as many times as we have prayed?...
"Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me." (Psalm 50:15 ESV)Note that our text, Psalm 50, does not read, "Call upon Me" once "in the day of trouble; I will deliver you." No, rather Scripture's direction is to "pray...
"The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love." (Psalm 103:8 NIV) “The Lord is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love, forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion.” (Numbers 14:18 NIV) Throughout the Old Testament, God's people...
"Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind ... Elijah said to Elisha, 'Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel.' But Elisha said, 'As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.' So they went down to...
"Our God comes; He does not keep silence; before Him is a devouring fire, around Him a mighty tempest. He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that He may judge His people: 'Gather to Me My faithful ones, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice!'" (Psalm...
"Hail to the Lord's Anointed, Great David's greater Son! Hail, in the time appointed, His reign on earth begun! He comes to break oppression, To set the captive free, To take away transgression, And rule in equity."O'er ev'ry foe victorious, He on His throne shall...
"I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite." (Isaiah 57:15b ESV) Recently I knew something was amiss between the The Prince of Peace and...
"For I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content." (Philippians 4:11b ESV)It's okay to be myopic.Agreed?Well, how about introverted? Cultured? Athletic? Gregarious?Few of these conditions bring on any sort of permanent social stigma. After all, myopia (the...
"And immediately He (Jesus) left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the...