Following is a slightly expanded version of what I said at B and K’s wedding, mostly because I read only Matthew 22 since Ephesians 5 had been read before I got up to speak: A Wedding is a day of celebration that has greater and deeper meaning than the happy couple, as significant as they [...]
Posts Tagged ‘God’s Word’
The Marriage Picture
Posted in Beauty, General, God's Word, Remembering, tagged Beauty, God's Word, salvation history, work of christ on April 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Evidence That Christianity Is True
Posted in General, God's Word, tagged God's Word on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A worthwhile study for anyone searching for truth either because you don’t yet have it or because you do and want a better grip on it is evidence that Christianity is true. Following is the first point of my six part outline for such evidence. It is only introductory on the subject but is a [...]
Thoughts of Heaven
Posted in General, God Thoughts, God's Word, Song, Sustaining, tagged God Thoughts, God's Word, Songs, Sustaining on August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
…or “Heavenly Thoughts” (or at least I desire so) or “Random Musings on the Life and the Afterlife” (which is more likely). A number of different positive and negative details have brought me to thinking more than a few thoughts about heaven lately. Beauty in nature, sermon comments, Scriptures I’ve read, and various quotes I’ve [...]
Four Singularities
Posted in Creation Articles, General, God's Word, Science, tagged Creation Articles, God's Word, Science on December 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »
In eighteen concise verses of II Peter 3 the Holy Spirit by the apostle Peter gives the believer significant motivation for godly living and insight into God’s works. The historical scope of the verses is nothing less than ‘beginning to end’. God, based on His authority and the worthiness of His person, could [...]
Warn a Sinner from his ways
Posted in General, God's Word, Poem, tagged God's Word, Poems on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As I sought to choose hymns for the evening service at church I desired to choose one that suggested the text, II Peter 2:1-9. I struggled to pick a song that spoke anything signifcantly about judgment. My wife said so simply, “Who wants to sing about that?” Well, of course she is right, but people [...]
The Word Before Your Face
Posted in General, God's Word, Poem, Sustaining, tagged God's Word, Poems, Sustaining on September 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was encouraging my healthcare provider and Christian brother who turned and encouraged me even more by several comments he made. The one that struck me most was him holding his palm before his face and saying, “If we keep the Word before our face it keeps changing us.” We listen rather than work because [...]
Glory of Christ revealed in His trial
Posted in General, God's Word, Poem, tagged God's Word, Poems on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last Sunday the pastor preached a Bible-based, convicting and practical sermon. The text was John 18:12-27. Early on he said the theme of this intertwined story was “the glory of Christ in His trial; the sinfulness of Peter in his denial.” As the sermon progressed this sentence kept working on me. It rhymed and it [...]
The LORD says to my Lord (part 2)
Posted in General, God's Word, tagged God's Word on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In Matthew 22 Pharisees, Herodians, and Saducees were trying to “trap Him in what He said.” (v.15) The issues they used were the poll tax to Caesar, remarriage, and the ranking of commandments. The real issues were heart issues of authority, belief in the resurrection, and the prioirty of loving God and your fellow man. [...]
The LORD says to my Lord
Posted in General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged God Thoughts, God's Word on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The more I read the Old and New Testaments, the more I think that God is most usually repeating Himself in the New and expanding on the thought. When He repeats Himself He must have a reason and we had better listen carefully. For instance, we tend to believe Leviticus to be the driest of [...]
Jesus is God
Posted in General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged God Thoughts, God's Word on December 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Soon many Christians of the world will celebrate Epiphany (“appearance” of Christ and visitation of the Wise Men, January 6th). But to whom were these Magi coming, a mere peasant or the forsaken descendent of a long defunct dynasty? If the New Testament is to be believed He was and is much more. My last [...]
A Canon of Truth
Posted in General, God's Word, tagged God's Word on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many students are deceived by a common perspective in high school and college classrooms of today that attributes the core doctrine of Christ’s divinity and the books accepted as inspired by God to the political scheming of Emperor Constantine at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. Are these two ideas, that Jesus is [...]
Blessing the Name by Remembering the Benefits (Psalm 103)
Posted in General, God Thoughts, God's Word, Remembering, Strength, Sustaining, tagged God Thoughts, God's Word, Remembering, Strength, Sustaining on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Psalm 103 begins with both a call for the hearer to worship and summary of what the psalmist desires to communicate to himself and those listening to him. David is alerting his own soul to bless God’s name and His benefits. But names of God seem to be absent and even the word “name” only appears [...]
Spiritual Israel
Posted in General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged God Thoughts, God's Word on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Based on a response I received from comments I made in church I began to review and reflect on physical Israel and spiritual Israel. Most of what can be gleaned from Scripture about the relationship between these two and the existence of the latter as distinct from the former is found in Romans and Galations [...]
Waver No More
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged Cultural commentary, God Thoughts, God's Word on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The United States is not a Christian nation any more than the Northern Kingdom of Israel was a godly nation in the days of Elijah. King Ahab and his father had made sure of that by not merely carelessness with God’s commands but actually having ”forsaken the commandments of the Lord” (I Kings 18:18). As [...]
You Don’t Want Fair
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged Cultural commentary, God Thoughts, God's Word on March 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A common thought and pronouncement in our culture is, “That’s not fair.” But we don’t really want fair ultimately because then we would all be in a world of hurt. And that world is called hell. What we want is privilege. Privilege is offered to all who will accept it by admitting they have done [...]
Shack Flak
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged Cultural commentary, God Thoughts, God's Word on January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Let me say it up front. I see most movies after they have gone DVD. I hear most news from a biweekly magazine. I find out how the ball team did after the season. By the time I try it out it’s gained the adjective “classic”. That way someone can tell me if it’s worth [...]
What Is Truth?
Posted in General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged God Thoughts, God's Word on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“What Is Truth?” Creatorworship When Jesus was on trial before His death on the cross, Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea was questioning Him in order to discover why He was being accused. Jesus gave Pilate answers and silence that must have seemed irrelevant to the accusations. The apparent lack of correlation between accusations [...]
Priority and Purpose
Posted in General, God Thoughts, God's Word, tagged God Thoughts, God's Word on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What are you focusing on this Christmas? Even if your focus is noble it is at least harried with distractions of life in general and the Season especially. Temptations to distraction were part of Christ’s earthly stay as well, but He was above the frey. Consider His purpose and priority: Why did Jesus come to [...]
Perseverance
Posted in General, God's Word, Strength, Sustaining, tagged God's Word, Strength, Sustaining on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I did a Bible study with the youth group at my church on Perseverance. They did the majority of the study in groups of 3 to 5 using a whiteboard, markers, and a Bible. Through presentation, interaction, and follow-up questions we concluded that perseverance is good and neccessary and that we need to dwell more on [...]
Banned vocabulary word
Posted in Cultural commentary, General, God's Word, tagged Cultural commentary, God's Word on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Have you noticed something missing from conversations in all forms of media- personal, electronic, written-about the debacle at Penn State? How about from the discussion of failed politicians, NFL or Hollywood celebrities, or riots or divorces in hometown America? Euphemistically entitled a condition, exceptionality, syndrome, genetic disposition, problem, societal ill, disease, tendency, aberration, failure, inequity, [...]
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