Not a “Tense” God

God is not a tense God, meaning God isn’t limited or contained by our past, present and future tense because God is an ETERNAL God. Well if any of those apply it might be present since all times are somehow present to God. Or if there was a tense to contain God you’d think it … Continue reading →

Righteous Indignation (expanded)

Wow! It’s hard to take in that leaders actually got angry in Luke 13 because Jesus healed a woman on the wrong day! She had been bowed over for 18 years. “Think of it,” he tried to reason with them to ponder what those 18 years had been like in that miserable condition. The Pharisees … Continue reading →

Christ’s Righteous Indignation

Wow! It’s hard to take in that leaders actually got angry in Luke 13 because Jesus healed a woman on the wrong day! She had been bowed over for 18 years. “Think of it,” he tried to reason with them to ponder what those 18 years had been like in that miserable condition. The Pharisees … Continue reading →

Heirs

” – as long as the heir is a child he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.” This verse at the beginning of the 4th Chapter of Paul’s letter to the Galatians struck me. Though we be joined to Christ and co-owners by covenant to everything Christ … Continue reading →

You Mighty Ones

“Give the LORD, you mighty ones, give the LORD glory and strength!” (Psalm 29) First I thought, “Wow, is God calling us “mighty ones?” He did call Gideon a mighty man of valor even when he was crouching in fear of his enemies. But then I read it again and thought, “No, God is referring … Continue reading →

Surpassing Understanding

We all have a tendency to try to “figure things out” at times. It gives us a sensation of being in some kind of control, because whatever we think we have figured out we tend to think we control somehow. But the Apostle Paul writes about a peace the “passes understanding.” That is, God offers … Continue reading →

Walking on the Escalator

“This is a walk not an escalator or elevator ride!” The preacher declared. I though of staring at the back of peoples’ heads on the elevator, the sometimes embarrassing silence. Or gliding through airports on conveyor belts that are often such a relief from the hustle of lockstep leg-races between flights. Walking involves taking steps, … Continue reading →

No More Flunkeys!

It is heartwarming for many of us to hear that it’s impossible to flunk out of the “School of The Holy Spirit” because the tests are given over and over again until finally we pass them, and also they are all “open book tests” (The Bible of course being the book.) Take the multiple choice … Continue reading →

Bad Dream

I was enmeshed in a system of sensual self-gratification in which everyone’s stimulation was interdependent with a multitude of others’ sensual experiences. There was the faint inner knowing that what was happening was wrong or prohibited but an unwillingness, even almost an inability to halt the pleasure of the activity. The next thing I knew … Continue reading →

A Matter of Which Mind

A proof that one is thinking with the natural mind rather than the mind of Christ is in the negative outcome of the reasoning process, the sour or bitter element in the content of the fruit of that process…….the grumbling result. In Matthew chapter 20 the early laborers, who had initially been content with their … Continue reading →