Isaiah 33:22 describes the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; it is He
Who will save us.
How do we see God? What role does He play in our lives?
The great prophet Isaiah working in a culture similar to ours many years ago reminds Israel that God acts in four ways in our lives. (more…)
John 3.30 summarizes the Christian life: He must become greater; I must become less.
John the Baptist makes simple both the process and the goal of the Christian life: Jesus must become increasingly clearer to us, in us and through us and we must become increasingly less proud, selfish and self-serving. John arrived at this conclusion because he saw himself as a servant of God.
Our occupation is the redemption of the world to God through Jesus Christ regardless of our vocation. Our vocation funds our occupation but the Christian life is simply being occupied with the work of seeing God’s kingdom come to earth as it is in heaven. (more…)
Isaiah 6.13 comments , though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.
The Old Testament is a story of man’s continual rebellion against God demonstrated by injustice to one another followed by discipline from the Lord Who withholds His severest rage because He is deeply in love with His people and longs to demonstrate mercy and grace. (more…)
Mark 14.38 commands watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
Watch means read the Book, understand what it says so that when you see things happening you can interpret them properly. Pray, so that the Spirit within is able to overpower the flesh without that is unwilling to obey the prescription found in the Book.
While Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for humanity’s disobedience, this was not done to give license to the children of God to disobey the commands of God. (more…)
Proverbs 11:29 promises whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind.
Any male can marry and procreate but not all males become men, especially men who lead their family to greater generational impact for God than they themselves experienced.
There are at least three key ingredients to impacting our families for greater good than we experienced. (more…)
1 Thessalonians 1:6 observes you became our followers and the Lord’s.
People need examples, coaches, models, mentors for understanding practically how to live certain principles or objectives. When the Apostle Paul would invest in someone he would invite them to follow him as he followed Jesus. The Lord Jesus, God in the flesh, invited men to follow Him as He taught and modeled how He wanted people to live if they were going to please God.
Inviting others to join us through imitation places a great deal of responsibility upon us for doing the right thing. Perhaps this is why we have diminished this methodology for developing people in recent years.
A couple of premises have to be established for this relationship to work. (more…)
2 Corinthians 12:9 boasts I am glad to be a living demonstration of Christ’s power, instead of showing off my own power and abilities. When Paul took the opportunity to…
Luke 9:48 observes your care for others is the measure of your greatness. When the disciples discuss being the greatest of all God does not reprove them for their desire…
Revelation 5:10 observes You have gathered them into a kingdom and made them priests of our God. The goal of God for His people is that each one live and…
John 12:26 records Jesus' response to some who want to see Him with, “If these Greeks want to be My disciples, tell them to come and follow Me, for My…
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