This morning I stumbled upon a treasure trove of gifts from God in His Word.“Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior].”  Romans 8:1 The Amplified Bible“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our [...]

When I was young I was always eager to get the boxes of cereal that had prizes inside of them.  One of my favorite toys was the sliding puzzle.  You could spend hours trying to slide each tile into the correct sequence.  As I was thinking about the sliding puzzle I saw an uncanny [...]

Over the last few years, I have been taking note of the number of God-fearing pastors, teachers and theologians that have gone home to be with Jesus.  I listened to their podcasts, read their commentaries, Bible Studies or books.  We have lost the voices of Ray Stedman, RC Sproul, Billy Graham, Warren Wiersbe, Charles [...]

Sometimes a Bible verse pops to the surface and you think, wow, I will have ample opportunities to apply that verse all the days of my life. I Peter 5:6 is one of those types of verses. “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God [set aside self-righteous pride], so that He may exalt [...]

When I was in college, my physiological psychology professor cautioned all of us students to remember that we must not take her class and think that we were now going to understand all human behavior and diagnose our friends, family members or ourselves. She reminded us that our behaviors were not like those of rats [...]

I was reading through Psalm 139 early this morning. I really love that Psalm for many reasons but I am particularly drawn to the language that displays the intricacy of God’s knowledge of us. He uses verbs associated with skills women have had used through the centuries. David wrote, “Before a word is on my [...]

It is such a weird time be alive. People everywhere are noting the extraordinary times and when I talk to fellow Believers there is a clear recognition that we are living in the end times. As I read thru Scripture, whether the Old Testament or New Testament there is no doubt in my mind that [...]

I was reading this passage in Ecclesiastes this morning... "Guard your steps and focus on what you are doing as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the [careless or irreverent] sacrifice of fools; for they are too ignorant to know they are doing evil. 2 [...]

Sometimes we can think that what God expects of us is a very elaborate, burdensome task list of hoops we must jump through to be one of His children and enter the kingdom of heaven. When I was reading the passage below from the Apostle Paul this morning I was reminded that it is when [...]

The concept of a bitter root is so descriptive. I grow pretty bitter myself towards a couple of types of roots in my garden because I didn’t plant them and they are strangling the plants that I intentionally planted that are beautiful and provide stunning blossoms. But my weeds and invasive plants didn’t get the [...]