April 14, 2021
A Word about the Word With your love LORD, the earth is filled. [Psalm 119:64] A fantasy? A wish? An ideal?A reality! God loves you. Let me say that again: God loves you. Soak it in. Believe it. You may not “feel” it. The world may not affirm it. Still, God loves you—with a real, sacrificial, […]
March 23, 2021
A Word about the Word When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. [Luke 9:51] Resolve. The choice to do, especially when it’s the hard and necessary next thing. Jesus determined that Jerusalem was the next and most important thing to do. He was […]
March 10, 2021
A Word about the Word- Make the most of your time. [Ephesians 5:16] “I never found the time to _______.” Those can be pretty sad words, regardless if they end with “play with my kids,” or “listen to my friend,” or “visit my aging parent,” or “enjoy the solitude of this moment,” or “pray with my […]
March 3, 2021
A Word about the Word- And they received from Moses all of the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning. So that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the tasks that he was doing, and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough […]
February 23, 2021
A Word about the Word- The one who loves silver is never satisfied with silver, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income… Here is what I have seen to be good: It is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his […]
February 15, 2021
A Word about the Word- But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. [1 Corinthians 9:27] Wednesday is “Ash Wednesday.” It begins the Lenten season, the forty days of observance (actually more, because of weekends) that help us focus on Christ’s sacrificing […]
February 8, 2021
A Word about the Word- For now, we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside […]
February 2, 2021
A Word about the Word- “Have this attitude in you which was also in Christ Jesus…” And what attitude is that, Paul? “…he humbled himself…” [Philippians 2:5–11] Andrew Murray, the nineteenth-century deep-thinking pastor, wrote a lot about humility. In both his classic work, Humility and Absolute Surrender, and his brief but strong Humility, Murray proposes […]
January 26, 2021
A Word about the Word- Therefore, he (Christ) is able to save completely those who come to God through him,since he always lives to intercede for them. [Hebrews 7:25] In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the […]
January 19, 2021
A Word about the Word- …Until Christ is formed in you. [Galatians 4:19] That is precisely the goal of the Christian’s life: Christ, his character, and his life recreated in me and you. Beatle George Harrison wrote a song with the lyrics, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” […]
