Let a sleeping dog 🐕 lie! Of course, unless you have something against sleeping dogs. Apparently some people do, as they say sarcastically about a lounging person, “He lives a dog’s life.” Or, “He is as lazy as a dog.” Or, “You lazy dog you!” Somehow dogs have been labeled with the hazy lazy stigma. […]
There is no possibility of anticipating what the Lord Jesus will do next. Following Jesus is to constantly be caught off guard. Just when you think you have His modus operandi deciphered, He blows your preconceived notions to smithereens! The unanticipated God in action! We read in Ecclesiastes 5:11, “JUST AS YOU DO NOT KNOW […]
5. Nadab And Abihu You know how kids are, they love to play! I am not talking about just playing sports, though as a boy I loved to play football 🏈, basketball 🏀, baseball ⚾ with the kids in the neighborhood! Oh what fun we had, and admittedly it could become intense at times. We […]
One of the grandest of the old hymns is: “What a FRIEND we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear, What a privilege to carry, everything to God in prayer. Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry, everything to God in prayer.” […]
You know how it goes: “WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH MAN IS POSSIBLE WITH GOD.” Of course, modern man, secular humanistic man, has completely deleted that truism from his thinking. Now you hear modern men asserting about themselves: -There is nothing we can’t do. -All things are possible for us. -Nothing is impossible to us. -There is […]
3. CARNALITY In Samson’s storied life, perhaps what He is known for most of all is his affair with a Philistine woman 🚺 by the name of Delilah, about whom we know very little. Hollywood has ridden that horse 🐎 to death. The truth be known, Samson was a carnal man 🚹. More specifically, Samson […]
When I read the Word of God, I am humbled again and again by the absolute sovereignty of the one and only God of Heaven and earth 🌎. In the flow of the centuries, past, present, and future encapsulated in Biblical history, one is brought to his knees with bowed reverence as he hears the […]
Introduction This picture was my concept of the church as a child. That is, until I met the Holy Spirit and the Apostle Paul. From this incredible Spirit-filled man of God I learned I learned the following truth that set my spirit on fire: “CHRISTIANITY IF CONFINED TO THE CHURCH IS NOT SO MUCH EMBRACED […]
Introduction From PHILIPPI, where THE JAILOR’S FAMILY had all turned to Jesus as their Lord and Savior, Paul and Silas in Acts 17 go to Thessalonica, a Greek city! In fact, it is the second largest city in modern Greece. The Apostle Paul preached in the synagogue there, as was their custom wherever possible! So […]
The Apostle Paul in the Word of God describes LIFE’S THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE. If you will, THREE CLASSES OF PEOPLE in the world and in the church. It may sound like an oversimplification, but Paul in fact boils all of humanity down to three groups, and here they come. We as Christians generally think […]
Paul in I Corinthians 3 is WRITING TO A PENTECOSTAL CHURCH. Of course, the entire New Testament Church was Pentecostal. 1. Frankly, Paul is writing to the MOST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH in the whole of the New Testament! 2. And, when you get into what he says to this PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, it is ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING! -Here […]
Remember the days when a “Party” was a very nice celebration that you went to, upon invitation of course? A very festive event! You know, like a “Birthday Party,” or a “Graduation Party,” or a “Coming Out Party” of some kind. While in the pastorate, the “Graduation Party Circuit” was the annual May-June ritual. A […]