Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The power of the Holy Spirit, by and through the cross, breaks the chains of sin and death. Every noble ideal is empty apart from Christ. When the still small voice of God becomes a thundering judgment, then intellectuals will realize their own stupidity and arrogance, but…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… If the universe “came from nothing,” then why couldn’t it have come from God? Which theory requires more faith? Which is more probable? (P.S. Stephen Hawking (evolution’s own ‘god’) once said, “The universe willed itself into existence.” Do with that one what you will, dear reader.) Even…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… We are not a God-shaped species as some would have us believe. We are a soul-image species (as in God created man in His own image). I believe our soul-image becomes a higher image when we are born again. It is at this new birth, spiritual, that…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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,…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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,…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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….
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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….
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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,…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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,…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord 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…