Let's Forfeit Forgetfulness & Give God Praise

Usually the opening statement in this passage of Scripture speaks from a soul that is arrested with appreciation or gripped with a generous gratitude. Do you remember telling God that you will never forget what He has done for you? Better yet do you tell him on a consistent basis “I will never forget what you have done for me”? By the way, the practice of blessing the Lord and refusing to forget His favor in our lives purges our prejudices against God. These prejudices are produced by a heart heavy with pride, complacency, selfishness, discontentment, pessimism and a fountain of fleshly issues that pollute our perspective of God.

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Sign, Sealed & Delivered!

I really appreciate a good sound. My definition of a good sound is music which moves you with a message to snap your fingers and move your feet. If you were around during the decades of the 1960's and 1970's, you might remember the soulful sounds of Motown music. The song “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours" is a soulful single by Stevie Wonder that was released in June 1970. Wonder's song was indeed a wonderful hit as it spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. R & B chart and peaked at number three on the U.S. Pop chart. In the same year, the song was also released on the album titled “Signed, Sealed & Delivered.” As you might expect from the song title, the dominant lyrics in the chorus are “Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours!” But further listening reveals that there was another part of the lyrics that spoke volumes with respect to the message of surrendership, commitment and our eternal future. Four different times throughout the song, Wonder sings “You got my future in your hands.” I wonder if Wonder understood the gravity of such a statement. 

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The Duty of Difficulties - Part Two

We all have heard the idiomatic expression, “When the going gets tough the tough get going.” So when you are experiencing tough times with faith, family, friends, or faculty (body and mind), how do you get going? And where and who do you go to? The correct Christian answer to these questions is that we turn to God and His Word. In order to “get going” we must submit ourselves to His Spirit according to Scriptures.

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The Duty of Difficulties

There are a lot of life lessons that lead us to look to the Lord and listen to His voice. When you have been travailing on tough terrain, strapped with stress and drenched with a downpour of difficulties, giving God glory and promoting praise in pain is a Christ-centered concept that's challenging to embrace. However, difficulty and stressors in our human story is standard with sanctification.  Our human experience also echoes the essentially of stress and difficulty for development and discovery. For instance, a long distance runner must be stressed to gain endurance. Sailing the seas gives the sailor his “sea legs”. Soldiers train by setting their sight on war and preparing for battle.  For the Christian, in truth, tribulation is tied to us learning how to trust in God. And this learning process develops patience.

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Treating the Word as a Transcending Treasure - Part Two


The California gold rush (1848–1858) commenced on January 24, 1848 when James W. Marshall came across a gold nugget in the American River while constructing a sawmill for John Sutter, a Sacramento agriculturalist. News of Marshall’s discovery brought thousands of immigrants to California from elsewhere in the United States and from other countries.

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When Your Heart Takes You to Court

“You had better ‘lawyer up’ because I will see you in court!” These are not the kind of words that anyone would welcome!  The thought of securing representation and standing before a judge can take discomfort to another level.  However, did you know that when your heart is not submissive to the spirit of God it will turn into a pernicious prosecutor that purposes to place you in a jail of guilt?  Too often when we fail God, compromise our convictions or break promises, our heart immediately leaps to accuse us and wrap us in chains of defeat.  By dwelling on our failures, we baptize ourselves in an unbiblical beat-down. 

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A Good Day to Die H.A.R.D. (To the Influence of Sinful Nature) - Part One

Bruce Willis is an American actor best known for his role as the infamous John McClane in the high octane and action-heavy Die Hard movie series. In all the Die Hard movies this reluctant protagonist with a “never-say-die” attitude is often out-numbered, out-gunned and out-resourced.  However, McClane, even though he is often beaten, busted and bleeding, has this uncanny way of being untouched by the grip of death. It does not even matter what his antagonists employ in an attempt to erase him off the big screen.  Whether it is a conflict involving grenades, C-4 explosives, RPG-7 missiles, helicopters or F-16 fighter jets, McClane consistently manages to survive whatever siege he faces.

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