A Terrible End

Scripture In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe. So he ended their days in futility    and their years in terror. ~Psalm 78:32-33, NIV Quote Discipline is the difference between goals and accomplishments. ~Jim Rohn Many, many years ago I heard a preacher pray, “LORD help…

The Fizzle Effect

Scripture You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it. ~Numbers 11:18-19, NIV Quote Only Jesus and His love become more and more engaging, absorbing and satisfying. ~Timothy Keller The Israelites…

Putting God To The Test

Scripture But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High. They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved. ~Psalm 78:17-18, NIV Quote Putting God to the test is one of the essential impulses of the human heart. ~Timothy Keller I don’t know about you…

Forgetting

Scripture “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind. This is your lot”…declares the Lord, “because you have forgotten me and trusted in false gods.” ~Jeremiah 13:25, NIV Quote The mind is a terrible thing to lose. ~Ya’akov The United Negro College Fund motto is…THE MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE.…

The Branch

Scripture Like a Branch that spouts from a stump, someone from David’s family will someday be King. ~Isaiah 11:1, CEV Quote There are two things that cannot be explained by those who do not believe: the fulfillment of prophecy and the existence of Israel. A king once asked one of his subjects, “Can you give…

Revival And Rain

Scripture He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills. ~Psalm 147:8, NIV Quote Power belongs to God. ~David, King of Israel What does REVIVAL and RAIN have in common? Only God can produce them. I can’t make it rain and I cannot produce revival. I don’t…

Give Them Heaven

Scripture “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him.” ~I Corinthians 2:9, NLT Quote My home is in heaven: I’m just traveling through this world. ~William Franklin Graham I was visiting the hospital a couple of months ago and somehow we…

Unholy Defiance

Scripture To the arrogant I say, ‘Boast no more,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horns. Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak so defiantly.’” ~Psalm 75:4-5, NIV Quote Arrogant people feel competent to run their own lives. ~Kathy Keller Those of us who were raised on farms and…

The Ungodly

Quote These people grumble and complain and live by their own selfish desires. They brag about themselves and flatter others to get what they want. ~Jude 16, CEV Quote True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less. C.S. Lewis I read the tiny book of Jude last week in…

What The World Needs NOW

Scripture They said to themselves, “We’ll crush them!” Then they burned every one of your meeting places all over the country. ~Psalm 4:8, CEV Quote “God is God. Since He is God, He is worthy of my worship and service. I will find rest nowhere other than in His will and that will is infinitely…