Sharp Thorns Delicate Roses

  He Who Repents In Thorns Sleeps In A Bed Of Roses.  In Bible times life was full of narrow paths, sharp stones and thorns. Several days ago I had to cut down some rose bushes to get to a stucco wall that desperately needed painting.  It was a painful reminder...

Outside Your Comfort Zone

If Your Growing In God You Will Always Be Outside of Your Comfort Zone “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.” (Isaiah 40:1,4) The...

Now Is Not Forever

Now-Verses-Then   “For Now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; Then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; Then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” (I Corinthians 13:12) I want you to especially see the words that I emboldened and underlined...

Nature – The Handiwork of God

Nature Is A Good Name For An Effect Whose Cause Is God Two of my boyhood heroes were Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. I learned some years after my conversion that both frontiersmen had personal encounters with God at revival campmeetings. Churches then were made of...

Toleration Can Be A Sin

To Say That All Religions Are Equal is the Most Intolerant and Dogmatic of Statements. In some things Christ was the most tolerant, broad-minded Man who ever lived, but in other things He was one of the most intolerant “Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way...

How Does God Get A Nation To Listen?

   The World As We Know It Will End In Fire. A parade is a beautiful thing; it can set the town in a whirl.   But all that bunting and dancing and music with marching bands and flags flying can be dispersed in a matter of minutes when the thunder and lightning and...

Thankful In All Things

He who cannot think of something to be thankful for has a very poor memory. (1 Thessalonians 5:18) “Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.”                         – 1 Thessalonians 5:18 NLT This verse says...

One-Day Some-Day Will Be-Today

The Awesomest Of The Awesomests.  “Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.”   (ESV 1...

Stop The Scapegoating – Egypt

  Everything I Do Is Somebody Else’s Fault For centuries The Day of Atonement was a major holiday in Israel. Every year on the Day of Atonement, the High Priest would take two male goats; one goat he would kill and offer up on the altar to cover the sins of...

Egypt’s Christians

It’s Christophobia! If the equivalent of 9-11 had happened in India or Pakistan rather than in America a blood bath equal to a civil war would have ensued.   If in America it was Christians burning down mosques you would hear a hue and a cry from the liberal media...