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Ingratitude
“Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.” Romans 1:22-23 March 29, 2024 How did the world, as we know, get into the moral abyss in which it lives? God tells the story like it is.…
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The Light of Nature
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.” Romans 1:18 March 27, 2024 How will God judge those who have never heard of Christ? No doubt you have wondered this. It is by divine design that a diagnosis of the…
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Fixing our Eyes
“Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!” Psalm 119:5 March 26, 2024 It has been my pleasure to provide weekday meditations on God’s Word. The psalmist has said, “I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways” (Psa. 119). Thank you for letting me participate with you…
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Only One Way
“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 March 25, 2024 Watching salmon swim up stream against the current is in the world of spiritual realties what we Christians are doing when we say that “there…
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Purim
“But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.” Esther 3:6 March 22, 2024 The word “Purim” is the Hebrew plural form of “Pur” which means…
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Victory in Battle
“Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.” Romans 7:25 March 21, 2024 You say you are a Christian, but the battle with your short-fused anger goes on. You can’t seem to…
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No Shortcuts
“Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” Romans 7:24 March 20, 2024 At some time or another we have tried it. Shortcuts. We took what we thought was a better way to get where we wanted to go, but it didn’t work out very well. There are no…
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The Squatter
“So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.” Romans 7:17 March 19, 2024 It is frequently reported that a squatter has taken over a dwelling place, usually a home, which he or she does not own. The squatter has no title or right to the place where…
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The War Within
“So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.” Romans 7:21 March 18, 2024 Upon pulling into the driveway of a family member, a strange event takes place. This has happened a number of times. Within a matter of minutes a cardinal (the bird)…