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…)
Exodus 34.6-7 describes the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in 
love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished..
The current culture rejects the importance of fathering but the Bible describes God as a Father, in fact that is the Name by which He prefers we call upon Him. The fact that some have experienced the tragedy of poor fathering doesn’t diminish the goodness of fathering.
What we need to do is focus on the goal of fathering so all of us can strive toward it and encourage one another in it. (more…)
John 8.11 records God saying, ‘neither do I condemn you.’ ‘Go now and leave your life of sin.’
The story of God recorded in the Bible is fairly simple and incredibly gracious. God creates but creation rebels. Rebellious creation needs restoration, a Savior, so God comes not in anger or judgment but with compassion.
God came as a man not to condemn the world but to save the world by demonstrating His love for the world through the taking upon Himself the consequence of their rebellion against Him. (more…)
John 6.29 describes the work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.
One of the knocks on Christianity is it’s easy entry to heaven. Some believe going to heaven is as easy as believing in Jesus, after all, isn’t that what He just said? Its fair to say what He meant by belief and what we understand by belief are not the same.
If what we understand belief to mean, simply believe, then the devil and all the demons would go to heaven since they certainly believe. In the gospel it is only the evil spirits who consistently identify Jesus correctly as the Christ the Son of God. I don’t think they will live with God forever though they believe. (more…)
Job 40.8 asks would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
A few weeks ago the papers reported another atrocity of ISIS terrorists murdering children in the name of their god. The story I read, reported by a journalist from Great Britain, ended with his comments of disgust concerning religion and its abuse of people. Correctly, this man had a problem with religion that justifies the murder and maiming of children.
Below the surface was his disdain with the belief in god because if there is a god then he should be good and if he is good then he should stop the killing in his name. (more…)
Luke 20.38 declares He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.
Every religion seeks to answer the question concerning what happens to humanity after we die. Why does this question plague us so?
The educational institutions from grade school through graduate school tell us there is no God. The media confirm this belief by their incessant promotion of atheism and all things antagonistic toward a God Who Created the universe and will hold His creation accountable to His will.
Yet we cant seem to shake the notion that there really is a God and someday we will see Him when we leave this life. All people from all time in all places of the globe have held this nagging question and have created various answers to it.
So why the question and what does happen when we die? (more…)
Luke 18.17 records God promising anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child
will never enter it.
This is a very familiar warning to us but few take it seriously because most of us don’t understand what He means to receive the kingdom like a little child.
We usually begin by thinking of sweet and innocent children all of whom will go to heaven because it only seems fair. Those of us who have children however know they are often not so sweet nor innocent but are rather quite overt in their selfishness.
This takes us back to ignoring the meaning of God’s warning because it fails to make sense to us. (more…)
2 Corinthians 1.5 promises just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort
abounds through Christ.
We are promised abundant sufferings of Christ. The word ‘of’ is the key to understanding what the Apostle is promising those who believe.
Jesus suffered the shame and humiliation of Creation not honoring Him as God, Lord and Creator of all. Instead, all of creation rejected Him, some spat upon Him while others struck Him with their fists. Many cursed Him and a few crucified Him.
Though He was God He did not demand His honor and rights as God but instead took the role of a servant and humbled Himself to the point of death, even death as a criminal upon the cross. (more…)
Job 24.1 asks ‘why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his 
days?’
Job wants God to judge him believing he will be found righteous. His friends are accusing him of being an evil doer which is their explanation for the tragedy that is occurring in his life.
Job argues his trouble is not a result of his wrongdoing but rather the result of some injustice being leveled against him by God. Job would like to see God hammer the evil and reward the righteous.
I think we all fall into this ‘prayer’ that God would smash those who do evil and bless those who please Him. (more…)
Exodus 6.30 records Moses said to the Lord, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh 
listen to me?”
Moses is certainly one of the great saints but he wasn’t flawless. Moses began serving God the way most of us do; he measured his ability by the size of the task and counted himself inadequate.
If we are serious about God, His will and His work, we find it daunting. If we are honest about ourselves we find our capacity to obey His will and complete His work beyond our current assets. (more…)
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