Genesis 3:17 "...cursed is the ground for your sake..." God spoke to me Sunday morning. It was in His usual way of laying out thoughts from nowhere. He said the struggle is normal and necessary, and why did I think any differently. I was leaving the retirement community where I visit a couple of times …
Category: Miscellaneous
If it doesn’t go anywhere else…
Consider My servant
Seems like I’m always in the middle of some mess. I've heard you’re either going into a storm, going through a storm, or going out of one. And there’s not much room between going out of one and going into the next. It may be normal for life, but it is taxing on the soul. …
Jesus – the early years
"A prophet is not without honor except in his own country." Why did God not give us more details about Jesus's early years? After the tale of His birth and a short note about an incident when He was twelve, why does He just spring on the scene? We would be like the people of …
January 2, 2013
Sparkling hats, crazy eye glasses, and hundreds, if not thousands, of people crammed into Times Square in the bitter cold. Why do people make such a big deal of the new year? I know some will take any opportunity as an excuse to celebrate, but the revelry of a new year appears to be universal. …
December 15, 2012
Front pages all across our nation are carrying the same story this morning. Once again we are mourning the loss of innocence as some warped individual decided to act out a crazed fantasy or lost control of his faculties and lashed out at his view of reality. Television networks will bring in their experts for …
November 7, 2012
Election was yesterday. Barack Obama was re-elected. God have mercy on us. Perhaps that is the point; we've put our faith in man and not in Him. We may indeed have passed beyond the point of avoiding judgement. As a nation, we've thumbed our noses at God and refused to repent. As His people, we've …
Salvation: The Fulfillment
We’ve looked at our need for salvation and God’s plan for our salvation. Finally, we’ll look at God’s fulfillment of our salvation which is through Jesus Christ. We know that Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for us. Because He was fully man, He could die in our place. And because He was also fully God, …
Black & White with Shades of Gray 