Scripture: (I Peter 3:12 NKJ) "For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, andHis ears are open to their prayers: But the face of the Lord is against those who doevil.” (Read I Peter 3:8-18).      Apostle Peter has a message for Christians that came out of his own sufferingand brokenness. He writes from experience of witnessing Christ’s suffering (5:1).Peter authored this book based on experien...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our lord Jesus Christ. Therefore...be steadfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord...” 1 Corinthians 15:57 Sometimes when I get sloppy regarding the day at hand, I resign myself to doing before me, as a substitute for genuine desire.’ But nothing brings the revival like the stir of a good question, such as Isn’t ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give You the desires of your heart."  Psalm 37:4"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."    Colossians 2:6,7         I ache knowing my own seasons of distraction, and seasons of apathy. I ache not because of l...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give You the desires of your heart."  Psalm 37:4"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."    Colossians 2:6,7           We are comfortable with '1 plus 1 equals 2,’ and for most purposes there is comfort with '...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  "And they came to a place named Gethsemane; and He said to His disciples Sit here until I have prayed. And He [Jesus] took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled."  Mark 14: 32,33      The name “Gethsemane” means 'oil press.’ And it is thoroughly reasonable for the place of Jesus' greatest distress, His squeezing, with the crucifixion that follo...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  "Then the king caused Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to prosper in the province of Babylon."  Daniel 3:30      "Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath ... giving orders to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. And he commanded certain valiant warriors who were in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in order to cast them into the furnace of ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  "Then the king caused Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to prosper in the province of Babylon." Daniel 3:30     We know of Daniel's faithfulness, as well as that of the company he kept. The 'whom' of Daniel 3:19, referred to as the 'sons of Judah' are: Shadrach [Hananiah], Meshach [Mishael], and Abed-nego [Azariah]. Daniel's assigned name, by his captors, was that of Belteshazzar. The r...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  "Therefore take up the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore having girded your loins with TRUTH... and having shod your feet with the preparation of the GOSPEL of peace... and take...the sword of the Spirit, which is the WORD OF GOD."  Ephesians 6:13-15,17 Pontius Pilate, having a unique audie...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  "Therefore take up the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore having girded your loins with TRUTH... and having shod your feet with the preparation of the GOSPEL of peace... and take...the sword of the Spirit, which is the WORD OF GOD."  Ephesians 6:13-15,17          These essential elements are...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  "And Lamech lived one-hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son. Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one shall give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”  Genesis 5:28-29 God's patience allows us all our stories, perhaps not so loaded as these, though all upon His mercy rely. Who knows what piv...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  "And Lamech lived one-hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son. Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one shall give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”  Genesis 5:28-29       A pivot is a substantial, intentional, radical, abrupt, all-consuming change of direction which by its nature not only...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.” [Colossians 3:15] NKJV Are you, dear Christ follower, greatly comforted by the revelations of Himself that God has given in His Word? As the hymn says, “Jesus knows all about our struggles; He will guide til the day is done. There’s not a Friend like the lowly Jesus. No, not ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let you mind dwell on these things.” Philippians 4:8 (NASB) Recently I had purchased some socks, which after one day proved to be the kind that retains an unbelievable amount of lint...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  “Therefore since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles  us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”  Hebrews 12:1 (NASB)     The word “witnesses,” as used in secular circles, has received a bad rap!  I believe the pejorative term is “snitch?”  Evildoers, of course, despi...  Read More

Type your new text here. SCRIPTURE:  “For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it?   And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”  Isaiah 14:27 (NASB)         In the book of Numbers (22:28), we read that God miraculously empowered a donkey to speak to a man named Balaam because the latter, on a mission to badmouth God’s people, needed a WAKE-UP CALL to see the Angel of...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.  To Him be the glory forever.”  Romans 11:36  (NASB)       Our Creator God has  and continues to use all kinds of people to accomplish His purposes throughout the ages.  Imagine His use of the raven and then a dove to serve as indicators of the floodwaters’ recession after the global flood—for the sake of His servant Noah and his...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  “The LORD has made everything for its own purpose,…”  Proverbs 16:4 (NASB)      This brings me to a third lesson that our pets teach us: our ten-pound house guest possesses a heightened alertness every day for whatever’s coming down the pike.  Similarly, our Lord commands us who dwell in this antichristian world environment to watch AND pray, lest we succumb to temptation, or live as d...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you…and the fish of the sea will explain to you.”  Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this…?”  Job 12:7-9      Upon reading the title verse, you may wonder is Job actually telling his friends to become “Dr. Doolittle” and talk to the animals?  No, he is not, ...  Read More