Danger in the Desert
To prepare His children to enter His promises, God performed lavish miracles of provision in the desert. Mistaking God's care and nurture merely as perpetual blessing, when prompted to enter and possess the promises, they shriveled up and drew back.
Christians today are mostly desert dwellers who assume His favor because He still . . .
True or False?
Is it not false for a man to reject the truth because he sees its practitioners as flawed or hypocritical - and wouldn't deign to identify with them, yet will not himself seriously and honorably commit to that truth?
Is it not insincere for a man to excuse himself from submitting to a truth for fear of being associated with its . . .
False Equations
Some people suffer long with painful and debilitating afflictions. The sincerity of one’s faith, and the great grace the Lord extends to them is plain and genuine. It, nevertheless, has no bearing toward altering the full and certain accomplishment of healing and forgiveness God provided in the Atonement of Christ.
There are . . .
Since When is Breathing Optional?
Healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons, cleansing the lepers are not token symbols of the Good News Jesus proclaimed. These are inseparable, organic components of the Kingdom Jesus brought with him.
They are the essential, natural, appropriate elements of God's intentional goodness. These acts are not merely . . .
Some Gospel Jig
Do believing Christians imagine they are less accountable to all the instruction, council, parables and teachings of Jesus than those first disciples just because they weren’t there to hear and see Him ‘in person’? Of course not. We know certainly that what He taught them, He meant for us as well, ‘cause He said so:
Go therefore and . . .
Come Home
Is it ok to carry guilt for the lesser, smaller sins we’ve committed? But then to take the ones we cannot bear to look upon or mention even in the secret place of our thoughts - those shame-inducing, soul-crushing acts done and vicious words cast, and throw them onto the One only Savior, Jesus?
No. It’s not OK. It’s stupid and . . .
