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 […]
In order for men to believe in God, they deep down really want Him or Her to be like them, to think like them, to act like them, to be one of them. They want a god who agrees with their agenda. And yet a god who can get them out of tight spots. He […]
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 […]
3. SHISHAK KING OF EGYPT The Psalmist says something under Divine Inspiration that resonates deeply with me. It always has and always will. He rejoicing states in Psalm 122:1, “I WAS GLAD WHEN THEY SAID UNTO ME, LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.” Of course, a HOUSE is what you live in. […]
Now you see ’em, now you don’t. Like shooting 🌟 stars, then they are gone. In a moment of time. Here one moment, gone the next. Gone so quickly. Here today, gone tomorrow. Did you see 👀 that? I caught only a brief glimpse. He was here just a minute ago. Sometimes the most impacting […]
I remember hearing his name before I could really process who this person truly was. I heard it over and over again. It didn’t sound right, but then who is a child to question? And when I heard it was when someone in my world 🌎 was either 😲 shocked or 😠 angered or both. […]
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.” […]
A MISPLACED CONFIDENCE Apparently, King David was a very wealthy man. To begin with, his Dad Jesse was far from poor. And the bounty that came with being King 👑was substantial. David admits that his prosperity and power made him cocky. Wealth and station in life have a way of infecting a man with prideful […]
We have just celebrated Christmas. The lights are still up in our house, and the Christmas carols are still playing. We generally keep our Christmas tree 🌳up for several weeks after Christmas. It’s such a uplifting and cheery sight, so we kind of hate to take it down. It is still Christmas in our home. […]
You, I am sure, have heard 👂more than once the old saying: “STICKS AND STONES CAN BREAK MY BONES, BUT NAMES CAN NEVER HURT ME.” Really? I fear that we speak those words too glibly, too casually, and too rhythmically at times. There is nothing trite or trivial about someone being the target of stick hurling […]
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 […]
There was an advertisement some years ago on 📺 television that was very effective. It simply said, “WHEN E. F. HUTTON SPEAKS, PEOPLE LISTEN!” All the more gripping was a young broker, standing in a large dining hall, talking to someone and he says to him, “E.F. HUTTON SAYS…..” And at that moment everyone in […]