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…

What A Calling!

Scripture Ezra had spent his entire life studying and obeying the Law of the Lord and teaching it to others. ~Ezra 7:10, CEV Quote Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. ~John Harold Sammis Ezra was a scribe. He lived long before there was type set…

Our King

Scripture “Kill him! Kill him!” they yelled. “Nail him to a cross!” “So you want me to nail your king to a cross?” Pilate asked. The chief priests replied, “The Emperor is our king!” ~John 19:15, CEV Quote A bleeding SAVIOR I have viewed and now I hate my sin. ~John Newton I suppose at…

Telling The Truth

Scripture I was born into this world to tell the truth and everyone who belongs to the TRUTH knows My voice. ~John 18:17, CEV Quote “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ~C.S. Lewis Jesus is…

What’s In It For Me

Scripture Try taking everything that he owns, and he will curse You to Your face. ~Job 1:11, CEV Quote Living for Christ does not give us immunity from suffering. ~Ya’akov The devil accused Job of vanity. When the LORD told Satan, “What do you think about My servant Job? There is no one on earth…

Professing To Be Wise

Scripture Professing to be wise, they became fools. ~Romans 1:22, NKJV Quote If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay a deep foundation of humility. ~Augustine When a man is suffering from conceit, everyone else except him, sees the problem. Pride has a blinding effect. Those filled with pride…

Everyone Has A Worldview

Scripture In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ~Genesis 1:1, NIV Quote Presently, the Western world is engaged in a huge confrontation between competing worldviews. ~O.S. Hawkings We all know that there is a huge conflict between the Christian worldview and that of Islam but that is East against West. On our…

When Failure Is Final

Scripture Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king [Judah] and he ruled 8 years in Jerusalem. He died and no one felt sad. He was buried in Jerusalem but not in the royal cemetery. ~2 Chronicles 21:20, CEV Quote Death is not a tragedy; to waste a life before one dies, that is…

Don’t Rock The Boat

Scripture The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably (Don’t rock the boat).” ~2 Chronicles 18:12, NIV Quote Thinking is an enemy of the Status Quo: people who think for themselves…

Politics From The Pulpit

Scripture Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for John had been saying to him: “It is not lawful for you to have her.” ~Matthew 14:3-4, NIV Quote The only sin in the post-modern world is to call sin a sin. ~Adrian…