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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
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?”
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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 and answers pushed [...]
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 the [...]
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 [...]
non-RAM
Posted in General, God's Word, Random thoughts, tagged God's Word, Random thoughts on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
About a month ago my computer came up with the feared “blue screen”. It was so irreconcilable that I had to take it to “Richard, the owner”, as he introduced himself the first time I met him, at his small storefront computer shop. My biggest concern was not the computer but the files and family [...]
Jesus is God
Posted in General, God's Word, tagged God's Word on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was confronted yet again just recently by a new acquaintance we’ll call Bill, “Is Jesus God or not? People have argued about it from early on.” Yes, they have and it is the very reason the Apostle John, “the disciple whom He loved” (John 19:26), wrote the book in the Bible called “The First Letter of John”. [...]
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 [...]
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