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Let The Nations Be Glad
“May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah, that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.” Psalm 67:1-2 October 13, 2025 The Great Commission in the Old Testament?! Yes it is. God called Israel into existence through Abraham (Gen.
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On the Horns of a Dilemma – Part 2
“So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD.” Isaiah 37:20 October 10, 2025 God in His infinite wisdom, love, and sovereignty over all the circumstances of life will place us in situations where we realize our dependence
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The Horns of a Dilemma
“Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.” Isaiah 37:17 October 8, 2025 Christians are not immune to be caught circumstantially between a rock and a hard place, a seemingly impossible situation to
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An MRI on Scoffers
“To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? For it is precept upon precept , precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.” Isaiah 28.9-10 October 6, 2025 The priests
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The Strength or Decline of a Nation
“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs 14:34 October 3, 2025 What does the future hold for our nation? No one knows for sure. But one thing is sure is that wisdom tells us that a nation is no stronger than the character of its people. The proverbs of
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Who Was Jesus?
“This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.” John 5:18 October 1, 2025 Driving in a thick fog is dangerous. Losing contact with the reality of where one
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The Good Soil
“And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” Mark 4:8 September 29, 2025 When you read the story of the four different kinds of soil, that is the spiritual condition of the hearer of Christ’s teaching, where do you spot yourself?
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Soils of the Heart
“Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil….Other seed fell among thorns.” Mark 4:5, 7 September 26, 2025 What is the condition of the soil of your heart. For some the seed of the Word falls where there
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The Soils of the Heart
“And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.” Mark 4:4 September 24, 2025 Jesus told stories, lots of them. We call them parables. They were heavenly stories with an earthly meaning. The parable under consideration is what is commonly called the parable of the sower. But