One Thing ~ One Way

Like Even The Simple Can’t Get Lost On A Straight Road. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her,...

Child of Darkness or Child of Light

In Thy Light We Shall See Light The Bible is rich in metaphors and similes. Light is one of its favorite picture words.       God is said to be ‘light.” Light is the most constant, and clearly observable, and all-pervasive experience in our universe....

When Bad Things Happen

Sometimes You Have To  Feel The Pain Before You See The Light. This is an age-old question and one of the most difficult in all of theology to answer. Atheists like to throw this thunderbolt at God’s people whenever they get the chance to hopefully nail us to the...

A Ready as A Wired Spring

In the ‘On Deck Circle’ John the Baptist was a voice crying in the desert, “Prepare the way of the Lord.” He was sent by God to prepare his people for the coming of their Messiah, Christ the Lord. John’s message of living in the light of the Lord’s return is a message...

Christian Martyrs

As a Christian I’m sure you have asked yourself the question; Would, I be willing to die for Christ as so many before me have? It’s easy to be brave when you’re sitting in the light of a strong Church surrounded by family and friends. But what if you were all alone in...

Was The Virgin Birth Borrowed from Paganism?

Somebody asked me the question several days ago; Were there  not a bunch of ancient myths about virgin births long before Christianity? Were not Dionysius and Mithras virgin born; and did not Christianity just borrow these myths from them?  If this is so were in deep...

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...