The “Atlas” That Never Shrugs

I said  to myself that you were my rock, but then I realized that Jesus is the real rock and that you are more like my anchor. That’s it, I’m the anchor in the storm that helps hook you into the Real Rock. Jesus is the real rock that holds me together in trying times like these. … Continue reading →

The Sacred Chair

When I woke one day recently I felt slightly out of sorts (it happens sometimes especially if I stayed up too late the night before).  After reading and discussing a daily devotional with my wife, which is our customary practice, I felt no improvement, though we weren’t doing it to feel better.  But after we praised … Continue reading →

Two New Rejoinders

C. S. Lewis said, “When the most important things in life happen, often we are not aware what is happening at the time” or, in other words, we may not know what’s going on in our lives.  The converse may also be true:  when events unfold that we think are most important in our lives, we … Continue reading →

Refute From The Root

When the so-called “Enlightenment”came along in the late 18th Century saying that humankind was basically good but just needed to be taught the right things to improve itself, ignorance was considered the great evil of the day.  But what Enlghtenment thinkers overlooked was that the same word “ignorance” contained the root that would best refute … Continue reading →

Gateway to Glory

Think of the habit of living without blame and above condemnation as a gateway into the New Testament version of the Promised Land; what has been called the Land of Promises, meaning fulfilled and fulfilling promises.  Romans Chapter 8 represents and describes that place in the Spirit.  And Chapter 8 begins with this threshold verse.: … Continue reading →

Awesome Authority

In Revelations 20 an angel binds up the devil for a thousand years.  Only ONE angel, mind you, was needed to put all of us who believe and will yet believe out of the devil’s reach for an entire millennium.  Wow!!   If only one angel has that kind of authority,  imagine the power of all the total authority present … Continue reading →

Who Purified: Part 2

The same chapter 20 in Proverbs goes on to give us another dazzling preview of good things to come in verse 27.  “The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD searching all the inner depths (rooms) of his heart.” Once our hearts have been purified by the sacrificial blood of the Lamb that … Continue reading →

Who Purifies Himself?

  Proverbs 20 verse 9 in the so called “Old” Testament is a perfect setup for the gospel to come so clearly in the pages of the New Testament. “Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am pure from sin”?  The answer to this rhetorical question, of course, is no one.  Only … Continue reading →

Making A Joyful Noise

My wife Leslyn doesn’t mind me saying that she’s not the best singer in the world.  She can just about carry a tune in a bucket, yet I enjoy listening to her anyway.  The reason her singing is sweet to my ears, even if slightly off-key, is because God has given it to me to love her … Continue reading →

Wells Without And Within

Jesus as he walked the earth liked to take in the history of his land.  He must have thought of Solomon when he strolled in Solomon’s Portico (the last remnant of Solomon’s original temple) in the temple, as he must have thought of his forefather Jacob when approaching his well in John Chapter 4.  This … Continue reading →