Divorce and Remarriage

Interestingly, from observation of many cases, and by the mercy of God certainly, the ones who are the happiest in remarriage tend NOT to be those spouses who initiated the divorces, but, rather, those spouses who were in the positions of weakness favoring reconciliation and were thus most victimized by the divorces, those are the … Continue reading →

Hell’s Revolution

There was an industrial revolution in hell with the advent of the human grumbling machine and the invent of the murmuring mill-wheel man. That was when the shift occurred. Talk about the desolation of smog fumes! It was then that hell swung into such high gear, driving evil to its tiptoes. Continue reading →

The Fishing Trip

They were fishing skillfully for the treasured souls of those lost in the grip of sin, those fishers of men upon whom sin had lost its grip and who thus had lost their grip on sin, as they now gripped instead their nets with either hand, more ambidextrous in right ahead doing than they had … Continue reading →

Untangling The Knot

All they did was call Jesus a crazed, suicidal, paranoid, demon-possessed bastard, that’s all. Which in a way he accepted when he took all that FROM US and much more upon himself at the cross where he demonstrated he was destined to judge and rule, when he sliced the hopelessly entangled so tightly-tied gordian knot … Continue reading →

Our Great High Priest is Sitting Still

Our Great High Priest is sitting still beside the Father, unlike the ones of old who only entered the Holy of Holies once a year on the Day of Atonement and were continually astir, a stirring that the other priests in the temple could hear due to the ringing of the bells of pure gold … Continue reading →

What Kind of Comfort?

Was reminded today how the Holy Spirit is a comforter and how easily we can misconstrue that fact. Comfort does often come after an injury or a trial, or a loss but that isn’t its primary meaning and that orients to a past event. “Words decay with imprecision,” T.S. Eliot wisely said. More properly construed … Continue reading →

Not Without a Fight

The sin nature, it is correctly said, will not go down easily or let go without fight. Sometimes we call it the flesh or the flesh nature, but that is too easily confused with physical flesh or the body. It’s not the body or the “flesh” that’s evil, it’s the sin nature which tries to … Continue reading →

Your Being Here Matters to Me

Something as basic as this gets easily lost: conveying to someone by greeting them and by the way we greet or acknowledge them that their very existence makes a difference to us and enriches our existence. And yet even those within churches seems to miss this. Granted, they (or we) are mostly not hostile or … Continue reading →

The Water “Blushed”

There’s always something significant and indicative about how an enterprise begins, and the miracle of the water turned to wine in the wedding at Cana was the beginning of the public ministry of Jesus. So then, not only had the Bible begun with the “wedding” of Adam and Eve so to speak, and not only … Continue reading →

A Safe Landing Place

The Apostle Paul writes in his first letter to Corinthians chapter 10 v13 that God is faithful and will not allow them to be tempted beyond their strength but will provide a way of escape (otherwise translated “safe landing place”) that they would be able to endure it. Think of a migrating bird on an … Continue reading →