Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Ill-defined terms and ambiguous statements are linguistic devices, ones employed by political propagandists in the art of persuasion and suggestion, and usually arouse emotional appeal that directs the people’s attitudes and decisions, usually to their own detriment. Social media has mastered the art of propaganda so that…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The blinding flash of Justice, the thunderous tones of Judgment… … so it was on the cross when Christ died. The ultimate state of salvation is glorification. Then, Christ ascended into Glory. No sacrifice is too great for the soul that has grasped the concept of genuine…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Singing praises to the Lord about what we have done is not praise! Singing praises about all that God has done through Christ by the Holy Spirit is the only acceptable praise. “The war between Christ and satan, which was waged on Calvary’s hill, involves issues and…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Paul welcomed exhaustion, suffering, poverty, dangers, and death because they helped him to grow into the image of Christ. The important task before each of us is to be truthful to ourselves first, so we can be truthful with God. We need to be the person God…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The church in America today needs more than revival, it needs Bible and re-Bible – meat, not milk. The regrets of the future are avoidable today. We can, right now, change our future to one of no regrets. The void in our souls is God-shaped. Everyone has…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Believers must be a force for good against evil. We must look beyond ourselves to those still longing for God. Where are you looking? Look into God, then look at the longing faces all around. They are everywhere. Christ gave His life so we could live to…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… We must be taught to do good, taught not to do wrong. We lust (i.e. a need for attention and praise, etc.). We need to unlearn the self and learn God. If the truth hurts, suffer for a while. Life is a checkout line… and no one…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… I find it interesting that religious leaders, from the Pope on down in the chain of command, will not stand up to the untruths of their religion because these rituals without reality flatter their ego and ambitions. Forms of religious rituals do not save, nor keep saved,…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… God is a divine mathematician. God’s exhale was the mathematical formulas that created creation. When God removes the curse on creation, the harmony of mathematics will be heard by all of creation as it flows endlessly from the Throne of The Most High. We are atoms (indivisible),…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… In the blazing radiance of the Lord’s glory our depravity is exposed, and His glory helps us see our depravity. He will expose the real self. America seems to be asleep, complacent in slumber, enjoying plentiful crops, clothes, possessions and luxuries, while our enemies plot our destruction….
That Which is to Come Wolves rush in Eagles swoop down Confusion binds truth Untruth leads the blind. The Restrainer slowly withdraws The way of Anti-Christ prepared Tribulation is just ahead Wickedness rules the day. Come quickly, Lord Jesus—call us out We listen for the trumpet And the thunder of your shout. Amen. — C. S. Craig, Written Sunday September…
Faith A non-meritorious (unearned) system of perception and belief based on confidence and trust in the authority of God’s Holy Word and His veracity (truthfulness).
Syntax The method in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or clauses), the part of grammatical usage dealing with this.
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Sobriety reveals one’s sweetness; alcohol releases one’s suppressed emotions. It is interesting that alcohol keeps the alcoholic in denial of addiction – the guilt of drinking keeps the alcoholic away from church and the Lord’s day. Alcohol breaks apart marriages, it keeps families apart, it ruins relationships,…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Jewish tradition said that there was in the temple a “chamber of secrets,” into which gifts given in secret were available for the poor, to be received in secret. God blesses the secret giver and the secret receiver. There is no secret from God, who rewards the…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… It is only the splendor of God’s glory-light that prevents our seeing Him. Lord, take the veil from our eyes. Take the vileness from our hearts. Open our eyes that we may see you in all your shekinah glory. There is no such thing as “sacred secularism”…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Throughout history, the invisible kingdom has called millions of believers to suffer for it. We have much to learn from the Holy Spirit. Notice from the Life of Christ that He loved freedom – He died for freedom. As you study Christ’s life, notice He was compelled…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… God knows we cannot stop being human, but He wants us to be more spiritual, so we will be less humanistic. He wants us to be more like Christ, His Son, so we will be less like ourselves. When I was growing up, I liked skipping flat stones…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Each person must practice daily to align their own morality with divine truth—the Word of God—the Bible. The Word of God is the Hand of God let down to lift us up. Christ broke the power of sin, Satan, death, the flesh, and ritual. I owe humanity my…
God… is Circularity, Causality Eternity may be considered as: Illusion; both the future and the past simultaneously present; time is a means to measure eternity as endlessness—infinity; time is a creation by God with which to allow/cause us to understand God as always eternal—a means of thinking—an intellectual concept for perception; human-mind interpretations. We cannot know something about nothing—we can…