Looking through the window glass,
What I’m seeing, need not ask.
People staring everywhere
Looking as if they don’t care.
World is going straight to hell,
For the most are under spell,
Hypnotized by what they see
On their teeny tiny screens.
World is lost in all their sins,
While the time is...
Q: Do you think that God still uses churches to share the good news of Jesus and to help believers grow in their faith?
Let’s define “church.”
The church is the ekklēsía, the universal body of believers in Jesus Christ who are of genuine God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ via dying with...
“First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who...
The day has dawned, the sun is shining,
And on God’s Word I’ve now been dining –
An open letter to His people,
To those who are, in truth, His pupils.
The Word of God tells us a story.
His words to us, they’re for His glory.
They teach us how we’re to live for Christ,
How for our sins Jesus...
I am reading in 2 Peter 2 about false prophets and false teachers among the believers in Jesus Christ, and I am noting some of their characteristic traits:
• They secretly introduce destructive heresies
• They malign the way of truth, the truth which comes from God
• In their greed...
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs...
“Oh sing to the Lord a new song,
for he has done marvelous things!
His right hand and his holy arm
have worked salvation for him.
The Lord has made known his salvation;
he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
He has remembered his steadfast love and...
The world around me falls apart,
It truly needs a brand new start.
But humans not the ones to give,
In Christ alone will our hearts live.
The hope for us is not in man,
But only in our Father’s plan.
He sent His Son to die for us,
So we’d forsake our sinful lusts.
His grace to us frees us from...
“Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous...
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household...
This Was Then
I am reading in Matthew 10. Jesus was sending his twelve disciples out to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” i.e. to those physical descendants of Abraham (and Sarah) who had not yet believed in Jesus as the Christ (the Messiah), the promised seed of Abraham, who was to...
One day as I was walking
Along a lonely road
I came across a person
Of whom I’d not been told
He was not one prestigious –
Not in the eyes of man
He looked like one deserted
Like one whom they had canned
He had a sad composure
For tears were in his eyes
And as I now observed him
Then I began...
Jesus Christ was about ready to go to the cross to die for our sins. And the purpose for which he died on that cross is that we might now die to sin and live to righteousness, that we might now live for him, and not for ourselves, and that we might now honor God with our bodies instead of...
Testing, besting, charms and jesting,
Life and love, in what investing?
Entertaining and complaining,
What of all of this has meaning?
Ferris Wheels and Carousels are
Not the path to life eternal.
Jokes and tales and magic spells are
Not what God has called you to do.
Ministers of gospel you...
What Jesus Did For Us
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – left his throne in heaven, came to earth, was born as a baby to a human mother, but was conceived of the Holy...