Scripture:  Romans 15:4 -  “These things were written for our learning…”  The historical account is told in the Bible about the Israelites traveling through the wilderness during their exodus from Egyptian bondage, and how what should have been an eleven day trip took forty years instead!  Before we scoff at their track record of endless complaining, bad attitudes, and ungratefulness, and how thei...  Read More

Scripture:  I Samuel 16:7 -  But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”When God wanted a king after His heart and having rejected King Saul, God sent Samuel to pick one from the family of Jesse.  As Samuel examine...  Read More

Scripture:  James 1:22-25 - But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hear...  Read More

Scripture:  I Peter 4:12-19 - Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of Go...  Read More

I Thessalonians 4:1-8 - Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to ...  Read More

Scripture:  Exodus 28:40 - And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.Exodus 29:10-11 - ...And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock. And thou shalt kill the bullock before the L...  Read More

Scripture:  Philippians 1:8-11 -  For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ. 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 10 that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which...  Read More

Scripture: Psalm 91:1-2 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust.“Safety isn’t the absence of suffering. It’s finding rest in the middle of it.” Michele Cushat.A young man, named Josh, was approached by two men dressed nicely. The men began to speak to the young m...  Read More

Scripture: Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.I stand on my Lord’s promisesSo, when He says something, it’s with honestyRomans 8:28 says, all things work together for goodYet, all conditions and implications are often misunderstoodMany are using this scripture without the Lord’s permissionThe sc...  Read More

Text: Ephesians 6:18 - "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;"Being a physician, especially a primary care physician, most of my ordinary day is spent having conversations with people, getting to know them a bit, to hopefully be more capable at knowing how to direct them toward options, how to co...  Read More

Scriptures: (Jeremiah 17:9-10 NKJ) “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”     Not a day passes that I am not reminded of the doings of people, in our churches, neighborhood, schools, community businesses, service workers, p...  Read More

Scriptures:  II Corinthians 4:18 - While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God m...  Read More

Scripture: (Luke 22: 3-5) Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. 4 So he went his way and conferred with the chief priest and captains, how he might betray Him to them. 5 And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. 6 So he promised and sought opportunity to betray Him to them in the absence of the multitude.Judas betrayed a man that he called friend. ...  Read More

Scriptures: I John 2:27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—an...  Read More

Scripture:  Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.There are various kinds of faith.  Two  definitions of faith in the Webster Dictionary are:  confidence or trust in a pe...  Read More

Text:  Luke 19:2-5 - There was a man there named Zacchaeus.  He was one of the most influential Jews in the Roman tax collecting business, and he had become very rich. He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowds. So, he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree beside the road so he could watch from there. When Jesus came by, He looked up at Zacchaeus, and called him b...  Read More

Scripture: Psalm 119:5 - Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.Four hundred and two years ago, in 1619, the first Africans were brought to America as slaves. By 1790, one hundred and seventy-one years later, slaves made up about 1/3 of the population of Georgia. The economy became more and more dependent on slave labor. As a result, slaves were forced to wor...  Read More

Scripture: I Peter 5:5-6 – Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders.  Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”  Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time…“This man also was with him” (Luke 22:56b); “You also are one of them” (Luke 22...  Read More