Each year, companies, governments, and other entities spend somewhere north of $300 billion to buy your love, attention, and gain access to your wallet. They want us to not only pay attention to them, but integrate their values and products into our lives. When we don’t, we are made to feel left out and even […]
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Redeeming the Time in 2025
How can we make good use of our time in 2025 to glorify God? Ephesians chapter 5 offers the following: Verses 15-17 indicate we are to “walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time” and “understand what the will of the Lord is.” Circumspectly means carefully in a manner that exhibits caution […]
As a Preacher, I Desire…
The Knowledge to be Truthful. A preacher can never stop being a student of God’s word. He should enter the pulpit with trepidation. Speaking for God must not be taken lightly (James 3:1). A preacher does not want to be guilty of “not speaking of God what is right” (Job 42:8). He needs to be […]
“The Judge Sentenced Himself”
Jeffrey Clothier was recently elected to the Genesee County District Court in Michigan. He appears to be taking his job seriously, having said, “there’s going to be consequences when you break the law.” He seems to also be a compassionate man who wants to help offenders of the law pay for their crime while also […]
“She Only Has Two Cups”
My mission trips to various parts of the world have benefited me as much as it has those to whom I may have had the opportunity to teach. While this country continues its slide into abysmal darkness, our citizens seem oblivious to the darkening clouds on the horizon. The cries for “civil rights,” “personal rights,” “judicial rights” […]
The Devil Wears Shackles
Job 1:9-12 We are studying our adversary, the devil, this year and we have four events in the OT in which Satan plays a major role. One of those is the book of Job. We just studied Job this past summer. The lessons are on our YouTube page. Let’s enrich our spiritual lives by considering […]
Jehovah or Yahweh?
The term “Jehovah,” appears in the American Standard Version (1901) as well as in most modern versions. It derives from four Hebrew consonants, called the Tetragrammaton (a term that simply signifies a four-letter word). This expression is used by scholars for the four Hebrew letters, YHWH, that constitute a name for God, employed some 6,800 […]
OUR 21ST CENTURY: AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
An increasing number of diluted and self-proclaimed philosophers have bought into the lie that modern man has finally reached the point where he no longer needs religion. In their way of thinking, man is the sum and substance of all there is. The old philosophy of humanism has clothed itself in new garb and calls […]
“Living Out Of Sight”
Trail cameras have become popular for revealing wildlife that may live closer than we realize. Our son in Colorado has spotted a variety of animals in his yard, especially after dark: mule deer, turkeys, bobcats, racoons, skunks, a mountain lion, and even a bear or two. These were nearby all along, but out of sight […]
“He Often Refreshed Me”
Paul, in recounting to Timothy his imprisonment in Rome, wrote, “The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains; but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me — the Lord grant to him to find mercy from […]