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 […]
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 […]
My childhood Christmases I can say we’re nothing short of magical! It was a WINTER WONDERLAND in Holland, Michigan. Still is! Christmas and snow were synonyms. We not only dreamed of a White Christmas, we lived it each year. Michigan was way ahead of Ervin Berlin’s WHITE CHRISTMAS. Oh yes, there was the real Christmas […]
I don’t know what Jesus looked like. I have often wondered, but I really don’t have a clue. There are no strong hints in the Bible about Jesus’ countenance, build, shape, height, weight, or anything else. I think the Holy Spirit wanted it that way. What He looked like was irrelevant, but Who He was […]
Believe it or not, it is here again. Already! From now until December 25, we shall hear the commercial din, and see the material montage of another Christmas in the USA. It will be my 78th. Things haven’t changed that much! Christmas deja vu! Been there, done that. How about you? BLACK FRIDAY has already […]
The typical view of history by society in the main is that people don’t have much of view of history. Many when asked about it say that they really do not think about it much. They were in a HISTORY CLASS in high school, but it really wasn’t their favorite course. History is for historians! It […]