Are You Good Enough?

Jesus was a great teacher… a prophet, healer and friend. These character qualities alone would qualify Jesus as a saint but would not allow Him to be received by God. Jesus was a man who was:  “…despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces

Lust or Love?

Void of… Most people do not love but lust. Lust is understood as the excitement of the mind, that is, longing after something. When people say they love some kind of food they are really saying they are excited about or are longing to have it. People who are void of God’s Spirit are void of love.

Are You A Shut-In?

  “The Lord shut him in.” (Gen 7:16b) When we prepare for the night most of us check our doors to ensure they are locked and secure. We secure our homes because we want to feel safe from danger and harm from the evil workers. The truth is that locks on our doors are only a deterrent

Do You Go to Church?

  Many people, when asked about their relationship with God, will offer up some religious credential. Some will lay claim to membership in some church group or have been baptized or some other religious activity. Others, when asked about their standing with the God of creation, will hold on to some supernatural religious experience.  The

Who Do You Think You Are?!

Do you think you have a right to have God answer your questions? Do you question God’s right to oversee and direct His creation without question? Many people demand why God allows, what we view as ‘great injustices’, to happen. In the account of the life of Job, we see such a case. Job had wrapped himself

Repentance or Confession

Revealing the Nature of Evil If you are a child of God these words define your new life:  “Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.” (Psa 97:10) To experience salvation, one must not only call on the name

Knock Knock

Where is Your Focus? Living a lifestyle that is full of multitasking makes it difficult to give the proper attention to any single activity or responsibility in our lives. Benjamin Franklin is often misquoted with the expression, “Jack of all trades, master of none.” What he said was not “master of none” but “master of one.” To

Living in Fear and Doubt

The Moment of Doubt Living in fear and doubt is not limited to just the weak and powerless. Moses was a great man of faith and was endowed with the power to open the Red Sea with a simple wooden staff. Yet we find in this man of faith, fear and doubt. Moses, seeing the vastness of the responsibility

Onward Christian Soldiers

To the Victor Belongs the Spoils The face of war is ugly. People die, cities are razed and left in ruins and wealth is transferred to the victor. We find such an example of the outcome of warfare in the accounting of one of the many battles that were fought by the Children of Abraham. In this

Are You a Cross-Carrying Christian?

Set Free! God is in the liberating business. We find in the scripture these words, “…ye have been called unto liberty.” (Gal 5:13) We have not been set free only to be in bondage to sin or to a system of belief. When the nation of Israel was repatriated to Zion, the Psalmist declared: “The Lord hath