A Better View

If we must be so preoccupied with the details of our own lives, at least let us ascend to a better view of the landscape.  Let it be as overlooking the entitirety of our lives.  That may well lead us to see and realize how populated our lives are and have been with others, and … Continue reading →

Voice of One Crying Out

                                                                                                                                                                                and verify that he was NOT the Messiah We are not the One crying out in the wilderness. Nor was John the Baptist who was quick to clarify that he was Not the Messiah.  Rather we are the VOICE, voice of the One crying out in the wilderness.  What a key distinction and what … Continue reading →

God is More Interested

God is more interested in your faithfulness than in your successfulness. God is more interested in: Your character than in your career Who you ARE than what you DO Your godliness than your giftedness The changing of your attitude than the changing of your circumstances. (One can lead to the other) His being well known … Continue reading →

Confidence Releases

It is confidence that releases the God given gifts and abilities within putting them to good use in serving others. Otherwise those gifts are locked in solitary confinement inside the prison of our own timidity. Continue reading →

Wisdom’s Family

Wisdom has many children Each one unique. Like any large family the various members Express themselves in a wide variety of ways. How often have we heard families marvel At how such vastly different offspring Could have ever sprung from the same set of parents! Wisdom has a big family, but not always a big … Continue reading →

Transact or Interact

It is not so much a book centered relationship we call Christianity as it is a relationship centered book we call the Bible. (This is not to say that what we hear in the context of that relationship doesn’t have to square with what we find in the Bible. It does. This along with the … Continue reading →

Round Trip Ticket

It is not merely the longest journey from the head to the heart that our belief must travel, but it’s the return trip back to the mind as well, if we want all this traveling to change the way we think and live. We as believers must claim our faith’s return trip ticket back from … Continue reading →

The Glittering Rose

Bill and Janice Brampton had purchased a beautiful artificial rose at a gift shop. It was strung with blinking lights powered by an irreplaceable battery. At first Bill could hardly wait to try it out and would eagerly ask Janice on Friday and Saturday evenings, as they relaxed over hors dourves and a glass of … Continue reading →

Severely Reflected

The severity and urgency of our nation’s situation and it’s deep need for prevailing, persevering prayer only reflects the severity and urgency of our individual and family situations and the deep need for prayer and immediate attention there. The former has only come about through the widespread neglect of the latter. Sometimes we distract ourselves … Continue reading →

You Yourself Well Known

You are more intent on You Yourself being well known to us than on our being well known to the world. So let us listen to You, learn from You, lean on You, and be led of You to follow You and be filled by You in every known area of our lives, To know … Continue reading →