perhaps becoming too saturated or overgrown. But it will also see many seasons of growth, life, and beautiful fruit. It’s about the continued progress. It’s about trusting that the Lord is at work in the dirt. In the middle of the messy and muddy parts. He is making...
teach us something about the kingdom of God. Now, I am not going to be tempted to discuss what our Lord means by that phrase, so frequent upon His lips, ‘the kingdom of God’ or ‘of heaven.’ Suffice it to say that it means,...
Much of my writing is presented to refutefalse teachingin the fundamentalist and evangelical Christian world. But I always want to point my readers towhat is true, right, and good. This Holy Week—the week that Christians especially honor the Lord Jesus Christ for all He has done for us, ...
As an important side note: An “inner motivation to help” that is devoid of the understanding that we call sympathy will result in the desire to “fix it.” That is, in the name of “helping” or “doing good,” the sufferer can be given platitudes meant to shut down grieving, ignor...
And the Shema, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one” (Deut6:4) is also holy and true. Now consider… Why did Isa/Jesus say: “I and the Father are ONE” (Injeel Jn10:30)? Because Isa and the Father are NOT partners, in the sense of two separate entities co...
Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength; and he maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and will make me to walk upon my high places (Hab. 3:17-19, ASV). Through the years when I have taken time for meditative reading, study and thinking, I have often read the prophets. Not studying for ...
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of dry ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we would look at Him, Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him. ...