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"Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace." (Matthew 6:6 The Message)...
Last week, in Wilderness Instructions, Part 1, we saw that God is still in the "temple-building" business, and even though the "temples" He now would have us build are spiritual, not physical in nature, the instructions He gave to Moses are still valid instructions...
Last week, in Written on the Heart, Part 1, we saw that we are called to take a spiritual walk that may lead us into danger, and we must be prepared, as the Train Driver is, on every journey. But how do we become "prepared"? When my Father spoke, I listened and now,...
“[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly].” (Philippians 3:10 AMP) To know...
"Don't be weighed down with things that concern this world: What should we wear? What should we eat? What should we drink? … Look at the birds. They don't worry …" (Matthew 6:25,26) Philio is my son-in-law's Blue-headed Pionus. They are great pals and Philio seems to...
Over Father's Day last year, we went camping along the shores of Lake Erie. While enjoying some of the first real "beach days" of the season, we were introduced to a new kind of surfing: Kite Surfing. The sport appeared to be akin to windsurfing, for the purpose of...
"We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised." (Hebrews 6:12) Keeping the faith requires a lot of hard work, especially in our society. In contrast to fifty years ago, churches are faced with...
As a minister of God, I am concerned about the situation in our homes. All around us today, we can see that many marriages have been messed up, many more at the verge of collapse and some dangling on the tiny rope that will snap off at any moment. The institution of...
Once we pass Salvation , our lives take a major change of re-routing. The road we were once on has now got to change to the road, Christ destined for us. The blueprint of God's plan for our lives is Redemption, Righteousness and Worship. In order to...
"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness." (Colossians 2:6,7) Last night, I received the sad news that one of my pastor...
"Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." (1 John 4:11-12 NIV) We have a saying in our house that goes, "It’s good to be...
We straightened our aching backs and rubbed the soil from our hands. Making the new garden was hard work and as yet, our loving imagination had to work overtime to begin to see its glorious future. It wasn’t much bigger than the proverbial pocket handkerchief but on...
‘When the people assembled Pilate said to them, ‘Which would you like me to release to you – Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus called Messiah?" Mathew 27:17 It was high festival time and the governor would release one prisoner from sentence. He would release whomever the crowd...