The Season of Getting

  As one who has experienced Christmas as a child, parent and now the grandfather of sixteen, my Christmas experiences have been morphing as I have grown older and it has become easy to become jaded by the worldly nature of Christmas celebrations. It is the time of the year that the focus is shifted from

The Great Escape

  The Word of God’s purpose in your life is to liberate you from the bondage of sin and death. Bondage in sin is often exchanged for the bondage of religion. Many people leave the power of sin in their lives only to find themselves in the bondage of religion. One of the greatest gifts

A Forgetful God

“And I will remember my covenant.” Genesis 9:15 God can and does forget. This testimony about God’s forgiveness is proof that God can choose to forget: “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” (Isa 43:25) God has chosen to forget your sins. Not

Are You a Tree?

  “The cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted.” Psalm 104:16 David, King of Israel, is credited with this statement from God Himself that David was, “a man after his own heart.” (1 Sa 13:14) David, reflecting on the greatness of God, said: “LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty."

Living in the Thorn Bush

Do you sometimes feel all alone? If so, consider yourself normal. Moses, the spiritual and political leader of the soon-to-form nation, was in exile from the only home he ever knew. Not only his home but his family, friends and community. Forty years before Moses learned that he was adopted into the royal family, he murdered an Egyptian and had to flee

All the Parts in All the Wrong Places

It seems a lot of people focus on their works for God. Many church groups enslave people to a work-based dogma or theology that requires people to submit to biblical teachings that have been “weaponized” by these church groups. The motive of these church groups, that present a work-based relationship for salvation theology, is to establish means and

Are You Stoned?

“And I will give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 The people of God had walked away from God’s ways and word and were captive in Babylon. Depressed, oppressed and cast down; all seemed lost. They were alone, outsiders in the land of the lost and godless. Yes, they deserved the affliction and judgment. The prophet Ezekiel

The Small Voice of God

“Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide.” Genesis 24:63 In the Old Testament, there are three different words that are rendered as meditating. Two of the three words are understood to murmur (in pleasure or anger) or to ponder or imagine. The Hebrew word used for meditating in this verse is used one

Wounded Hearts and Broken Spirits

  “Why me!?” This is an often-uttered comment when people find themselves in difficult or broken relationships. The truth of the matter is, we often are the authors or significantly contribute to the problems in our lives and this also holds true in the condition of our relationships with the people in our lives. The words we speak

Your Great Hope

The hope of the resurrection is not a new concept that begins with Christianity but is as old as the sentence of death that came at the first sin and sinners in the Garden. The scripture states: “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain