Sunday Religion

Scripture You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, “We are safe!’ ~Jeremiah 7:10, GNT Quote Sometimes I wonder if we are not worshiping worship rather than God. ~D.A. Carson Jeremiah witnessed the demise and death of a nation. Judah was living…

Call It What It Is!

Scripture Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the abundance of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. ~Psalm 51:1-2, LSB Quote Sin is deceitful: it will carry you further than you intend to go; keep you longer than you intend…

Honest Men

Scripture “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. We are all sons of one man; we are honest men; your servants are not spies.” Quote The ten older sons of Jacob were outlaws, scoundrels, thugs, and hooligans. ~Alvin Tucker I don’t remember the entire sermon, but I do remember hearing Alvin…

Samson

Scripture Then the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him. He went down to the town of Ashkelon. ~Judges 14:19, NLT Quote The strong need humility and the weak need strength. ~Source Unknown Samson’s entire life was a spiral downward: he kept going down and it led to captivity, blindness, humiliation and death. He…

Losing Your Soul

Scripture Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate; For Yahweh will plead their case and rob the soul of those who rob them. ~Proverbs 22:22-23, LSB Quote What is your profit margin, if you gain the whole world but lose your soul in the process?…

I Called And No One Answered

Scripture So I will bring disaster upon them—the very things they are afraid of—because no one answered when I called or listened when I spoke. They chose to disobey me and do evil.” ~Isaiah 66:4, GNT Quote I never learned anything while I was talking. ~Robert G. Brechtel June says that I am bad about…

Thank God For Romans Seven

Scripture For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold into bondage under sin. ~Romans 7:14, LSB Quote No one can achieve righteousness: we must embrace it as a gift from God. ~Craig Keener The ancient Rabbis taught that people were born with an evil impulse {yetzer hara} but…

Morality Verses Immorality

Scripture “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” ~Jeremiah 17:9, NLT Quote Learn all you can about your own heart, and when you have learned all you can, remember that you have seen but a few yards into a pit that is unfathomable. ~Robert…

The Mirror

Scripture For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he looked at himself and has gone away, he immediately forgot what kind of person he was. ~James 1:23-24, LSB Quote Most people have a…

Who Needs A Doctor?

Scripture “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.  I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.” ~Luke 6:31-32, NLT Quote Apart from linguistic difficulty, the greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence form the minds of my…