READ, PROCESS, LINGER… The uniqueness and depravity of human self-hood – the nature of humanity. The amazing thing about destiny is when two separate and unique lives, by chance (or is it?), come together. One fulfills, one completes – creating one life, stronger and more beautiful than if they had remained unknown and alone. Humans are unique to all…
READ, PROCESS, LINGER… It is imperative to stay near the Lord, stay in the Word, and remain occupied with Christ, without discipline or with discipline. When you learn to stay near the Lord without discipline, then God will bless you without discipline. Either way, God blesses you – always with love and mercy, always with kindness and patience, always…
READ, PROCESS, LINGER… Life has reason, which reason does not know. The mills of faith grind slowly but surely; they grind exceedingly fine when mixed with Biblical Truths. To mature is to learn discipline, respect, control, and tolerance for the lack of same in others. The journey begins with the breath of soul-life, and ends with its removal. Yesterday…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Intellect wants to receive glory, to be the God it denies. So intellect is a spiritual battle between unregenerate humanity and God, leaving God out of the equation. Whisper, wonder, and wind – perhaps akin. Wisdom is both knowledge and discernment – the exercise of judgment – as opposed to folly, yet there is wisdom in…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Jesus Christ became incarnate to save us… so that truth can become incarnate through us to a lost and dying world. We are the living truths of God. The best apologists of Christ are those who demonstrate His life outwardly to the world. Regardless of what happens to you or to me, history is written before…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Old age finds and delivers weak hands and feeble knees. The Lord God numbered all the generations of man, from the very beginning to the very end. “I, the Lord, the First and the Last, I AM that I AM.” The Lord blots out our transgressions, or the Lord blots out our names (Isaiah 44:22 and…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Knowing how trivial we are, how depraved, should keep us humble in the pursuits of life. Just as the bud of a flower injured by the frost will not open, so too a child or person injured without encouragement or warm praises of affirmation may not open themselves to the world outside themselves. Retreat into oneself is…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Before the cross became the symbol of Christianity, it was used to mark graves. It is interesting that the cross of torture, suffering, and shame became a symbol of hope and faith and honor. The cross of death is the symbol of eternal life. The vertical beam points to Heaven, to a Holy God. The horizontal…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… What we see around us is the evidence of God’s existence. Try to think of something that doesn’t exist. What did you come up with? Honestly, you can come up with nothing. So, this is how we know that God must exist, because we can conceive of Him. Incarnation Time is a creative extension of God….
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. No need to. God is the street light, the city light, the heavenly light – God is light. Look out for number one, Make your own rules, Win at all costs, Nice guys finish last, The power is within you, blah, blah, blah, ad nauseum… These clichés certainly expressed the…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Our Lord Jesus Christ anthropomorphized God so we could form an understanding. This is called the incarnation. Even if each person set their own standards of morality, they still could not keep those standards. We cannot even be true to self. How then can we be so blind to not see our own wretchedness? We live…
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 hearts of us all, therefore eternal…
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 than change our ways. Supernatural truth, supernatural…
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 for answers in all the wrong places. So, I…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Genesis is the embryonic foundation of God’s historical truths – the connecting rod of all books of the Bible. God is absolute necessity – we are beneficiaries. There is gain, there is forfeit, there is volition. When the world seems contrary, look inward. I wonder what it is like to have all the answers with no…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Ego has a way of sawing off the branch it perches on. If we are not willing to keep the faith by living a life in Christ and for Christ, then we certainly would not be willing to die for Christ or even suffer for Christ – our faith is measured by our obedience. Intimacy in…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The original writers of Scripture used exact words to reveal God’s truths. Their Holy Spirit-inspired words contain the richest intent of truth, and our utmost skill is required to preserve God’s truths. The original Holy Writ, the God-breathed words, contain God’s original intent. Satan has focused his energies to proliferate an excess of liberating translations evident…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… As human beings, we alone, in all of creation, have the inherent ability to live uniquely in diverse realms – the spiritual world and the material world. I believe that our human soul is the platform, even the launching pad, of humanity’s created trichotomy, where body and spirit become one with the soul at the point…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… My emotional need for poetry, epic and tragedy, fill me with hypnotic charm and dazzling life that may somehow have existed in a world closer to whom we really are… there we believe. Tales of enchantment offer escape without drugs. Perhaps if and when people learn to take the time to appreciate folklore in every culture,…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… There is no such thing as a complete failure because failure is never complete. We are all complete sinners, completely helpless and completely hopeless. In Christ we are completely justified, completely forgiven, completely righteous and I am eternally grateful. It is interesting that fire somehow consumes itself and must find new victims or die. If sin…