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Father’s Day Revisited
July 6, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4 “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.” Malachi 4:6 Application: Recently I was asked again the age-old question, “If God exists and God is good, why is there so much pain and misery in the world? Doesn’t the pain...
July 6, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4 “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.” Malachi 4:6 Application: Recently I was asked again the age-old question, “If God exists and God is good, why is there so much pain and misery in the world? Doesn’t the pain...
Living In Tangled Webs
June 17, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Do not deceive one another…I am the Lord.” Leviticus 19:11-12 Application: For all futbol fans (soccer for the “unenlightened”) the World Cup is the pinnacle of excitement! Like the Olympics it only comes around once every four years and involves the entire world. Many wives and other non-interested household members have wondered lately if a hoard of bees or wasps have invaded their home. Their ears and sanity have been assailed by the incessantly buzzing South...
June 17, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Do not deceive one another…I am the Lord.” Leviticus 19:11-12 Application: For all futbol fans (soccer for the “unenlightened”) the World Cup is the pinnacle of excitement! Like the Olympics it only comes around once every four years and involves the entire world. Many wives and other non-interested household members have wondered lately if a hoard of bees or wasps have invaded their home. Their ears and sanity have been assailed by the incessantly buzzing South...
Your Susceptibility To Lies
June 10, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”......... “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:1,4-5 Application: How prone are you to believe a lie? Adam and Eve were the only man and woman other than Jesus to begin life on this earth as innocents, untouched at their beginning by sin or a fallen...
June 10, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”......... “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:1,4-5 Application: How prone are you to believe a lie? Adam and Eve were the only man and woman other than Jesus to begin life on this earth as innocents, untouched at their beginning by sin or a fallen...
He Sees It, Even If You Don’t
June 3, 2010
Scriptural Basis: "If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. FOR you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb…My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.” Psalm 139:11-13, 15-16 Application: Seven...
June 3, 2010
Scriptural Basis: "If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. FOR you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb…My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.” Psalm 139:11-13, 15-16 Application: Seven...
For Whom Should I Lay Down My Life?
May 27, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.” 1 John 3:16 Application: There is a before and after in these verses written down by the hand of the same man, the Apostle John. The first was John’s recording of the words of his beloved Savior just prior to His crucifixion and death;...
May 27, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.” 1 John 3:16 Application: There is a before and after in these verses written down by the hand of the same man, the Apostle John. The first was John’s recording of the words of his beloved Savior just prior to His crucifixion and death;...
Delicious Evil
May 20, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” Matthew 6:13 Application: Our Lord teaches us to ask the Father to “deliver” us from evil. He does not say “keep” us from evil, or do not “lead” us into evil, as He says about temptation, but He clearly says in the prayer He has given us as a model for all our prayers, “deliver” or “rescue” us from evil. The simple implication of the Lord’s choice of words is that we are smack...
May 20, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” Matthew 6:13 Application: Our Lord teaches us to ask the Father to “deliver” us from evil. He does not say “keep” us from evil, or do not “lead” us into evil, as He says about temptation, but He clearly says in the prayer He has given us as a model for all our prayers, “deliver” or “rescue” us from evil. The simple implication of the Lord’s choice of words is that we are smack...
Time Travel and the Fourth Dimension?
May 13, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” 2 Peter 3:8 “For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” Psalm 90:4 Application: The brilliant astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking, just announced this past week that he believes time travel into the future is scientifically possible. At the same time he firmly declared that time travel...
May 13, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” 2 Peter 3:8 “For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” Psalm 90:4 Application: The brilliant astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking, just announced this past week that he believes time travel into the future is scientifically possible. At the same time he firmly declared that time travel...
Lawlessness
May 6, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of His coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan…and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth...
May 6, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of His coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan…and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth...
That Stinks to High Heaven
April 29, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “May my prayer be set before you like incense.” Psalm 141:2 Application: When I caught myself thinking these words last week I thought, “I wonder where that phrase came from?” I “googled” it and got over 35,000 hits; basically 35,000 quotes of people who have used it to voice their displeasure with something or other. When I sought out the origin of the phrase, online dictionaries would only give definitions for single words like “stinks,” not the phrase...
April 29, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “May my prayer be set before you like incense.” Psalm 141:2 Application: When I caught myself thinking these words last week I thought, “I wonder where that phrase came from?” I “googled” it and got over 35,000 hits; basically 35,000 quotes of people who have used it to voice their displeasure with something or other. When I sought out the origin of the phrase, online dictionaries would only give definitions for single words like “stinks,” not the phrase...
Snitches Get Stitches
April 22, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.” Genesis 37:2 Application: Robert Tate, 17 years old, wasn’t ever going to snitch—not even when it came to his own murder, according to the Chicago Police. This young man had been shot in the chest as someone approached him on a West Side sidewalk just 10 days ago. The first...
April 22, 2010
Scriptural Basis: “Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.” Genesis 37:2 Application: Robert Tate, 17 years old, wasn’t ever going to snitch—not even when it came to his own murder, according to the Chicago Police. This young man had been shot in the chest as someone approached him on a West Side sidewalk just 10 days ago. The first...
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