This week's blog is rated “R – restricted” from those individuals that do not want change and for those who forfeit victory and fix themselves in vices. The subject of this week’s blog can secure sincere transformation for those who trust the “Truth” (the Word of God).
Read MoreHave you ever been in a place where you believed that you had not seen God move in your life recently? Is it possible the reason you believed that to be true is due to your preoccupation with the problems you experienced including relational, financial, professional, social and physical issues? Sometimes the experience of failure and unfulfilled expectations causes us to cry out: “God, where are you?”
Read MoreBy way of introduction for this week’s blog offering I offer to you idiomatic expressions. Idiomatic expressions are a type of informal English that have a meaning different from the meaning of the words in the expression. For example consider the following:
“All roads lead to Rome”: An expression meaning that many methods will lead to the same result ...
Read MoreIn light of Resurrection Day, I thought it important to process the price that Jesus paid to purchase a personal relationship with God for us. A review of the Levitical law indicates that sacrifice was required to compensate for man’s sin nature. As sin separates us from a holy and righteous God (Isaiah 59:2), the blood of an animal sacrifice offered a tangible visual for the cost required to reconcile man to God. More importantly, the Levitical system established man’s need for a Savior. In response, God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to fulfill the Law that we might be reconciled to Him (Matthew 5:17).
Read MoreHave you ever considered the weather condition, “fog”? What is it? Fog creates a cloud-like covering over surface areas - be it land, water or sea at any time. According to meteorologists, fog can develop immediately when warm surface temperatures confront and collide with cool air. Subsequently visibility is reduced to zero. ...
Read MoreFor 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.
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