How should a nation deal with national tragedy (recent hurricanes, mass shootings, and COVID-19)? Today it is typically the blame game. We blame someone (the weatherman, President Trump). We blame something (guns). We blame the government. On a personal level, how do we deal with personal tragedy and trials? It is a fact of Christian…
“Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.” (John 14:27) All around us is turmoil. We see in the hoarding, the fighting, the anger and the desperation. Why? People are…
Over the years I have met some very brilliant people. People who are intelligent, people with several advanced degrees, or people who can run circles around me in a debate. However, many of them seem to be unhappy, angry and/or never satisfied. Others try to find happiness in position, vocation, money, travel, sports or the…
“Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increase” ((Psalm 4:7)) What a wonderful thought! David was in the midst of attacks from his enemies, they were turning his glory into shame. So what did he do? He turned to the Lord. And God put…
No, not today with all its cloudiness and rain. But a day of ministry, a day of serving the Lord… a day of worshipping the Lord. Oh may my heart be lifted up to the Lord today, to the heights of His throne. I need a clear vision of Him, as He revealed Himself to…
“And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach.” ((Col 1:21-22)) Reconciled to God, O glorious thought. I who once was His foe, His enemy,…
“John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose”. ((John 1:26–27)) We live in a day where self is exalted (self-esteem, self-image, self-love, self-improvement…). As we…
The distractions are many, the temptations are multitudinous. This world is full of traps to dull my focus. With my whole heart, that’s what I want to seek the Lord with. I need His help to do just that. Reminds me of Paul’s words, “Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things…
“What the wicked fears will come upon him,But the desire of the righteous will be granted.” The wicked can only live in fear. Notice their responses to the recent terrorist attack in Europe. They may have a lot of loud words and get busy with security, but down deep there is fear. When a person…
So I’m an angry person. What must I do to change and overcome my anger? I must realize my anger is sin. My anger is not a character flaw. Being an angry person is not just the way that I am. In light of this… I must confess my sin to God and ask His…
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” ((James 1:19-20)) Have you noticed that there are a lot of angry people around us? Just look at the frontage of any newspaper today. People are angry…
Jesus went to the cross for me. There He shed His precious blood in my behalf and for my sin. What amazing love and compassion: to think that before the creation of time, He planned it all and in His grace included me. There is no greater love, no more wondrous compassion. Jesus died for…