Cultural Surrender There can be no effective cultural change until a spiritual change takes place in the individual. For this to occur, the local church must teach and equip each believer to be an informed and effective communicator. Spiritual transformation occurs when the individual trusts the cross-work of Christ and begins to metabolize and store Bible doctrine in the soul…
Humility Lord, I am older now and your wisdom and love have patiently humbled me. I can see more clearly now that the rain is gone and the clouds of my ego are dissipating. I see you more than I see myself. Lead me in justice—I walk on my knees. God, teach me your humble ways. When pride begins to…
Happiness – Fulfillment Found Webmaster’s Note: A deeper understanding of both God and the Living Word comes not only from accurate Bible study materials and proper instruction, but also from you. When you take your time, meditate upon key points, and look up given verses for yourself, in your very own physical Bible, your walk with the Lord takes on…
Worry, Truth, Peace Want to worry less? Pray more. Rather than look around you for answers, look up. Rather than look for someone else to blame, look inward. Inhale God’s Word every day… and watch worry go away. Rather than living in denial, make a study of you. If a believer stays in Christ and in Truth and another doesn’t,…
Relative Righteousness A Brief Study If moral choices remain relative (no right, no wrong), we will witness the death of reason, the loss of shame, and the loss of our ability to define meaning. Without absolutes, there is no shame, no meaning, no authority, no truth—reason itself will have lost meaning. Remove God, who is the absolute meaning of Truth,…
Fairy Tale Adventures in Odyssey Ah, the adventures we can have in imagination—the wonderful tales which can take us to the places full of fun and fancy that await. Pretense? Yes, that’s it—make believe. It can be some truth with more myth, or much truth and some element of myth attached. Oh, but what a wonderful adventure fairy tales can…
Lasting Pleasures vs. Fleeting Happiness CHRISTIAN INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION Look around you. It is evident everywhere. Humanity is in a “frantic search for happiness.” The pleasures people seek are physical, and physical pleasures are always short-lived, futile, and often have future consequences, which are many times more harmful than the enjoyment they first brought. Self-control, prudence, and recognition are prerequisites to…
The Sufferings of My Afflictions The sufferings of my afflictions, whether temporary or permanent, achieves an eternal weight of glory that does not—cannot—hold me down, but rather lifts me up forever. This physical, earthly dwelling is temporary for my time limit on earth while separated from my Savior. My spiritual dwelling in Heaven has been especially prepared for me as…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The fog-mist settles at evening over the Shenandoah River, then at morning it rises to a point of the vanishing—and so are the days of our lives. We appear for a little time and then… vanish away (James 4:14). One must understand that eternity is written upon the…
The Weight of Self People spend much time pursuing ambition, material possessions, and lusts of the flesh and of the sin nature, when infinite peace and joy are available to them every day. People allow peer pressure in the work place, social groups, and other relationships to keep them distracted and competing for temporary happiness and material possessions. Inordinate ambition…
The Doctrine of Grace MAN IS THE RECIPIENT AND BENEFICIARY OF GRACE BECAUSE OF CHRIST Second only to the Doctrine of the Deity of Christ, the most important study we will ever undertake is the Doctrine of Grace—God’s graciousness. We cannot even begin to know our Great God and Savior until we metabolize His grace. The word grace in the…
Unfailing Waters The road in the kingdom is level—no more hills and valleys Justice dwells in the wilderness Righteousness in the forest. The end of Justice shall be quiet confidence The fruit of righteousness shall be peace In happiness we will sing by unfailing waters When Christ reigns from Jerusalem We shall see the King in His glory and perfect…
Armchair Anecdotes To the thief one size fits all. If one cannot swim the great ocean of knowledge then he should go by boat. Leaders of nations in order to start wars, must take the first bullet, politicians the second, their sons the third, and liberals the fourth. Lying is not careless truth—it is lying. The person who can do…
Armchair Anecdotes – Part Two IN SEARCH OF WISDOM Man searcheth, but where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Few knoweth its place nor its price, for it is priceless and its place is not where men look. WISDOM COMETH BY FAITH Wisdom never rests, though she may indeed forever, or for a time, withhold…
Thoughts for Meditation from the Word of God In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God; He heard my voice out of His Temple, and my cry came before him, even into His ears (Psalm 18:6) And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly, yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind…
Words of Wisdom with Quotes from the Word of God He who is devoid of God’s power to forgive is devoid of God’s power to love. If we cannot forgive, how can we expect God to forgive us? If we say we have not sinned, then the truth is not in us and we speak against ourselves. If we expect…
Wisdom’s Simplicity Wisdom is brightest in the day-spring of morn; I have inherited the wind’s song. Wisdom shall flourish like a branch in Spring— I drink from wisdom’s fountain. Wisdom in my soul sustains laughter; I shall flourish in His eternal love hereafter. My children—my glory, my children’s children—my crown. The day is done, oh my soul, sleep in peace,…
Absolutely Commitment and faithfulness are moral virtues which help bind families together. The moral dimension in America has disintegrated to a serious moral disorder. Sex dominates the media, especially TV. To avoid the immoral sexual bombardment, my wife and I mainly watch sports (and even then only a few select games and teams, minus commercials because they too exploit sex),…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… How many are on a quest for a past that will never return? The past is gone forevermore. We pursue a past that we shall never catch while running from self in the present—these are the good ol’ days. We run to and from the past, rather…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Trillions of people have lived throughout history, and time and destiny have spun these lives together like strands in a fabric that somehow is each one of us, and we each become one blanket that covers oblivion, and we cannot see where we’ve gone, and we look…