For all the football fans in the blogosphere I open this week blog with a personal fact. I have been a Dallas Cowboy football fan since 1970. Yes, I know all of you Giants, Redskins and Eagle fans are putting me on your prayer list. Perhaps if you are an ardent adversarial fan against America’s team you probably would like to accost me and take me to your team’s stadium for a stoning. But you need to know that I began to root for the team with the blue stars on their helmets when one of Dallas’s big stars Rayfield Wright came to my elementary school when I was in the sixth grade! Needless to say since then I have been smitten with a significant stroke of starstruck. So how ‘bout them Cowboys?! ...
Read MoreI open this week’s blog with a statement that is situated in spiritual conviction: Depression is not a disease. This is my position because of my biblical world view. I hold true that Scripture reigns supreme over science because of its source: GOD the Holy Spirit. I also have a cemented conviction that calls me to have a high view of Scripture. When the Scriptures speak to various areas of science (Biology, Geology, Paleontology, Psychology, etc.) they vigorously speak truthfully and authoritatively.
Read MoreWe live in a lost world which consists of broken people who contribute to the complexities and confusion that consequently create captivity. In light of this fact, consider with me a likely scenario...
Read MoreThis week, I am directed to visit a difficult and divisive topic in the Body of Christ. My objective is to open our hearts and minds to what the Word of God declares about depression. By His grace and the leading of His Spirit I am seeking oneness with God and His Word with respect to depression. We know that it is God’s Word and His Spirit that places us in a position to understand and exercise wisdom in the most challenging concerns as well as additional complexities with which life confronts us.
Read MoreThe Word of God encourages us to be good stewards of our attitudes. A steward is one who is responsible for managing and maintaining something. The word attitude is defined in the dictionary as: manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind.
Read MoreIn this week’s blog, we will conclude our three-part series on licentious, lying lips. In the economy of God people with lying lips are never without consequences. Lying lips are extremely lethal. As a matter of fact, there are some somber and excruciating examples from history that remind us of the repulsive, revolting and reprobate results of lying lips.
Read MoreFrom 1956 to 1968 there was a television show called “To Tell the Truth.” Did I also mention that the show was in black and white? Yes, we are going retro and old school for this week’s blog entry.
For this week’s blog entry I would like to begin with a question: Is lying a sin or a solid strategy? Honestly, have you employed the skill set of lying in order to protect others or yourself from a perceived threat.
Read MoreIn last week’s blog, we defined envy as a painful or resentful awareness and attitude of covetousness with regard to another’s advantages, success and possessions. The Hebrews (God’s people) and the scriptures regularly employed the expression “an evil eye” to characterize a person filled with envy or jealousy.
Read MoreFor those of us that are contentious of our personal hygiene and presentation, we probably spend a significant amount of time each day preparing ourselves (our bodies) for the day’s activities. Whether our plans include work or visiting our house of worship, we went into preparation mode...
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