June 2020 Blog Posts (9)

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,…