I give to someone in need — and I base my work on their response or, I tell others about the great work I did. I want to be appreciated. This is not going low, but putting myself high.
This is one of those passages of Scripture that lingers in the air and echoes in the mind long after it’s been read. There is nothing that can separate us from the love of God. That’s one reassuring promise. There’s no one else who can make a promise like that and keep it. Ha...
I chose my own word from John 15:1, 5—vine. And while I played with possibilities, my poem began to fit a pattern. Every line contains seven words except the last, which contains nine. First, the scripture, as a point of reference: And now, the poem. Bonded to the Vine Praise to...
designed two websites, took a team to Asia for missions, planned for and executed a 200 person conference, launched a clothing line, preached at other conferences, networked with people, went back to school, got my PMP, took classes, went to charity events, and grew two businesses.I...
The post-modern culture of today dismisses the notion of any absolute authority and encourages individuals to be their own judges of what is right and what is wrong. People can do this by picking and choosing what in the Scripture they will believe and follow. Or they can do this by mixin...
Scripture commands us and encourages us to always mortify our sin and sinful nature, and to never give in to them according to Col. 3:5. We acknowledge and confess that Christians can and will still fall into sin, even serious and willful sin, yet through contriteness and earnest ...
Scripture on the other hand tells us to plan for death. As the Book of Sirach tells us, “Remember the Last Things and you will never sin” (Sir 7:36). Biblically speaking, to remember is not simply to keep it in the back of our mind or to “accept it” but to make it a pres...
The devils are called in Scripture 'hairy ones', because they often appeared in the form of goats or satyrs. Gerson, in his book De Probations Spirituum, tells us how Satan on a time appeared to a holy man in a most glorious manner, professing himself to be Christ: the old man ...
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Of course I believe all of scripture to be divinely inspired, so that explains that bit of foresight, but I still enjoy thinking that the blessing that follows, grace and peace to us, was intentionally meant for you and I today, too. Paul expresses thankfulness that the church at Corinth...