Homosexuality

 Is All Love Equal? In his second inaugural address President Obama spoke about love. He said that our nation’s journey for equality “is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly...

Carefree But Not Careless

“Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your request be unreservedly made known in the presence of God.” (Philippians 4:6, Weymouth Translation),  There is nothing wrong about being careful or even...

Chronic Complainer

“And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.” (Numbers 11:1) Have you ever thought of...

Always

“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing My recompense with Me, to repay everyone for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” Revelation 22:12-13 We are a month into 2013 already; can you believe it! That usually...

God Knows Me

   “You have searched me, Lord, and You Know Me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You...

Prognosticators

“Present your case,” says the Lord. “Set forth your arguments,” says Jacob’s King. “Bring in [your idols] to tell us what is going to happen. Tell us what the former things were, so that we may consider them and know their final outcome. Or declare to us the things to...

But God

Life is hard but God is good.  “My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Psalm 73:26). God makes all the difference! There was a time when the whole world was in bondage to sin and death. But God! “But . . . God...

Coping With Stress In The New Year

Stress Is A Part Of Life   We have all heard it said a dozen of times before, “Stress makes you grow older faster.” Now like you I get weary of junk scientists who say such things one year only to have another scientist scuttle his findings the next year; but as to...

The Rough Places Made Plain

“Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.” (Isaiah 40:4) This is an amazing promise. In the primeval “very good” creation (Genesis 1:31),...

On The Road Again

We are only into the first week of the New Year, and regardless of what you might think of the Mayan Calendar prophecy or the fiscal cliff decision or even the possibility of another war we all know that life (even at its best) is a risky business. ‘For you do not...