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When you send your Spirit, new life is born to replenish all the living of the earth.

PSALM 104:30 NLT

 

I am the Unrivaled Sovereign Force.

     Learn two lessons well: 1) I am God; 2) you are not!

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Exalt the LORD our God!

Bow low before his feet, for he is holy!

PSALM 99:5 NLT

I am the King of heaven—trust in My assuring hope.

     I am your Leader to the Promised Land—Guide to get you home.

     Present circumstances may discourage—remember they…

A long-time friend asked me recently, “Do you suppose that in our life-cycle the call to take care of one’s health becomes one of the highest callings God makes to an individual?” I have thought much about his question, especially as I am asked to “shelter in place,” wear a mask, and keep a social distance away from everyone. All this is contrary to how I have been fulfilling my calling for all of my adult life. I am called to ministry, and ministry is relational. However, this much I know,…

You are Yahweh, Most High over all the earth, far transcending all gods.

PSALM 97:9 TNJB

I am Most High over earth—exalt Me above all false gods of the heart.

     Idols are low-life—I am the Infinite High God.

     Idols are…

WE ARE ALL GULLIBLE AT DIFFERENT POINTS

I have recently been enthralled by some of the writing of Rachel Held Evans. She has written some powerful…

Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

PSALM 95:6 NLT

 

In a quicksand world, I am your Rock.

     Without My foundation, you would crumble.

     Rely on…

Giants Causeway, Ireland 

Judgment will again become saving justice,

and in its wake all upright hearts will follow.

PSALM 94:15 TNJB

The ebb and flow of life’s forces may sometimes seem out of control—

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One of the most courageous actions recorded in Scripture is found as Joseph of Arimathea going to ask for the body of Jesus. It does not take much imagination to understand what Joseph must have been thinking when he considered going to Pilate. He must have known he would lose his place on the Sanhedrin and in society by doing that. He had to have considered the fact that connecting himself to a condemned criminal might cost him his life as…

That is not true. A case in point is found in Matthew 16. When Simon Peter said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God,” Jesus did not just say Peter was right, He said flesh and blood had not shown Peter this. Our Lord’s Father in Heaven revealed it to Peter. Jesus had first asked His disciples who…

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee,…

One of my favorite events in scripture is the night Jacob wrestled with God. I don't believe you find anything like this in any religious teaching other than the Bible. The God who created the universe humbles Himself to wrestle with a man. The story is in Genesis 32.



Jacob feared that he and his family would be attacked by his brother, Esau, and…

It was several decades ago this month, having sensed the call of God on my life, I was licensed to the Gospel ministry by the West End Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, where my father was Pastor. Shortly thereafter, I enrolled in Howard Payne College, to major in Bible, and prepare for the ministry. In my Senior year, I was called to be Pastor of the Robinson Springs Baptist Church, near DeLeon, Texas and ordained to the ministry by the First Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, Texas, where my…

                                                               The Lord is king! He is robed with majesty. 

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View of earth from the moon 

 

It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to the Most High.…

Any sin is serious. And God's people are not immune to the enemy’s temptations, although we are given armor against them. To some extent, it is not unusual for God’s people to be sucked into whatever sin dominates our culture. But those who desire to be godly will seek deliverance from the sin of the world around us.



The sin that is shaking our country is slander. It is prevalent on…

God has helped me a great deal with these four keys to memorizing Scripture. You too will find them helpful, especially if you are trying to commit large portions of Scripture to memory. They are to Slow Down, Calm Down, Focus, and Pray. God gave me these things in the struggle to…

From an unpaid, non-pastoral lay person:

Saw a sign that read, "The Church has left the Building," in front of a church in Palatine, Illinois on May 9th.

They had added more to their sign below this phrase, probably about on-line worship and stuff.

But I really didn’t see that part.

I…