READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Every human begins life in bondage. By faith in Christ, we rise in courage into the liberty of Bible doctrine, where we find peace, joy, love, and true, lasting inner happiness. Interesting how we attempt to live each day’s comfort with the counterfeits of illusion. The corpse, thought dead, continues its advance in corruption. The day…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… I suppose we could say that matter is most real to our senses. But, having said that, matter only substitutes for the unseen spiritual reality we cannot see while in the flesh. Therefore our deepest longings that go unfulfilled are for the resurrection of, or restoration of, our original senses (Hebrews 11:1). It is the frivolous…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Living our lives in a time-centered existence has its tensions. We are nostalgic for yesteryear, which lives on only in memory, in the midst of a disappearing present – time is elusive. Time is God’s creation. What we do in time matters. Our decisions have eternal consequences. Time gives us opportunity to know and believe and…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… We live today in a divided world, and this is by design. God works even through our weaknesses, and for His purposes, which will eventually bring blessings to believers and glory to God through Christ. Christ must be first and foremost in our thinking. Horizontal: Gain the world for yourself, serve yourself, and lose yourself and…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… A loving God does not reject the unbeliever, the unbeliever rejects the love of God demonstrated on the cross when Christ died as a substitute for all humanity. The sin nature remains active as long as we live (1 John 1:8), so God added 1 John 1:9. Throughout our lives we will continue to use our…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… We’ve all learned very well to listen to the world. It comes natural to us. But as believers, we must learn to listen to our bodies (health reasons), and we need to listen to the Holy Spirit. The world reveals human viewpoint. It also reveals divine viewpoint, which are the doctrines of the bible. Our flesh…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Truth in America isn’t what it used to be. Deconstruction of truth undermines the Bible and the Creator. Divine viewpoint is a God’s-eye view, a revelation from God that literally demonstrates truth as absolute (Romans 3:4; 2 Timothy 3:15-17). Intellectual indifference is the enemy of morality and virtue. Even before humanity was created, the sacrificial lamb…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… When one’s ego is inflated, one is without integrity. Kill… your… ego (and kill your TV while you’re at it). If this old house could speak, its stones would cry out from the walls, and the rafters would answer them from the woodwork. Flaming arrows, shining spears, and chariots of fire… “And I turned, and lifted…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The laws of nature (or, more properly, creation) are established by “nature’s” God. Believers are citizens of heaven, the kingdom of God, therefore the believer’s first loyalty is to the King of kings and Lord of lords – Jesus Christ. The transformation in the believer’s life is from physical to spiritual, from the world to the…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Removing anything from the Word of God is liberalism. Adding to the Word of God is legalism. The wisdom of God is there for the benefit of humanity. God honors our choices – God or self. Humanity prefers self on the throne with its self-satisfaction and self-desires and perverted insistence. There is ruin (because of us)…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… I seem to hear the call of the wild in the impatient wind, and I yearn to connect with both mysteries. Even more as I see the northern lights, I long to merge into the beauty and the wonder of the splendorous – to be immersed and filled until we become one, flashing forth to and…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Perhaps inferiority keeps us humble. So, I (we) wrestle with superiority and inferiority; humility and arrogance; coveting and regret. What is this thinking of the psyche, this battle of natures within us? The conflicts of thought are provoking and educational, and each decision has a price. When consciousness becomes constant evil, it needs constant sleep –…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… No created thing can satisfy the soul of mankind except the Creator. Christ fills the void in the soul; the Holy Spirit fills the life of the admitted believer. We each need to give our lives to the Lord, and give Him what He gave us… His life. John 13:38a: “Will you lay down your life…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Alcohol does not kill brain cells, it causes new cells to grow slower, which interferes with the working functions and processes of the brain. Drink knowledge instead, then meditate with the Holy Spirit to develop wisdom. In Matthew 20:23, we see that the future is already prepared by God the Father. Christ, sent by the Father,…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Walk in truth through fields of grace. Abide there. Walk in love. Standing… walking in truth-fields… remaining faithful. Standing or walking is just one step from stumbling. Walk and practice truth. Protect truth from counterfeiters and untruths. Works for salvation is a perversion of God’s grace. The believer is preserved in Christ (Jude 24). It is…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The people stand for truth or untruth, therefore, know truth. His name is Jesus the Christ – Yeshua. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, where He is first in the lives of its people. The heart of man is capable of all things, deceitfully wicked in arrogance. I am persuaded by past and…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… When we pass away, all things become new. In Colossians 3:5-17, the old becomes the new. We put off the old and put on the new, via transformation, transition, and translation into God’s presence. Revival is the translation from the old to the new. The restoration of mankind to a permanent spiritual relationship with God is…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The result of apostasy is divine discipline, whether it be toward the individual or… the nation. Pray for your nation, daily, fervently. The faithfulness of a nation to the laws of God’s divine establishment and the dedication of believers to the doctrines of the Bible are the solutions that guarantee freedom in an ominous and belligerent…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Life is a bummer of a blessing. Life is a repeat of wrong choices, bad and good decisions. With bad decisions there is a price to be paid; with good decisions, a reward is made. We have given our full confidence to Christ. We have believed His Word regarding our sin. We have believed God that…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Death terminates the necessities and accessories of life. In death’s grip, life disintegrates, but in Christ’s hand, death has no power, no sting, we’re a passing thing or we are naught. Looking up from beneath the trees, one is enthralled in the shimmers of happy glimmers – my little family and thoughts of aspen and birch…
