This first video talks about all the things we did in childhood - and we're, still, here to tell the story! https://youtu.be/MrevuyWQZmI As I watched this video, I was entertained, as I thought about how life was so very different when were growing up. There was something else that went through my mind: the words …
Continue reading A little bit of nostalgia… and a little bit of praising the Lord
"He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap" (Ecclesiastes 11:4). "I have loved you with an everlasting love" (Jeremiah 31:3). Like everything else in our world, the weather can be so changeable. The love of God is unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable. What's so different about God's love? …
Continue reading The best thing I can tell you is God loves you.
" ... having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus" (Hebrews 10:19). What a contrast there is between the many animal sacrifices made by the Old Testament priests and the single sacrifice of Himself made by our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ! Here's a song that may help you to see, more clearly, the difference between the two. …
What are we to make of the book of Ecclesiastes? At times, we may wonder, "Why is this book in the Bible?" Sometimes, this book is saying to us, "Absolute futility ... Everything is futile" (12:8). At other times, we're being told that we are to "fear God and keep his commandments" (12:13). We wonder, …
"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit" (Psalm 34:18). When everything seems to be going wrong, the Lord draws near. He assures us that he is with us. He helps us. He lets us know that he is the God of our salvation. He's the God who puts us back together …
"I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland" (Isaiah 43:19). Do you feel like you're in a "wilderness", in a "wasteland"? Here's a song which may help you - When the road is rough and steep. https://youtu.be/UF7xgQwKlpc
"But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra — what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But …
Sometimes, we're up on the mountaintop. Sometimes, we're down in the valley. Sometimes, we're really rejoicing in the Lord - on fire for the Lord. Sometimes, our heads go down - and we've lost the joy of the Lord. What are we to make of the turmoil of confused and confusing emotions that we experience …
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In the Old Testament, we read of Israel being brought close to the Lord - "... Israel, the people close to his heart" (Psalm 148:14). In the New Testament, we read of both Jews and Gentiles being brought close to the Lord - "He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those …
Jesus was a storyteller. He told stories that had a deeper meaning. He told stories that challenged us to change our way of thinking. He told stories that challenged us to change our way of living. It was not so much about changing ourselves. It was about being changed by Jesus and the words that …
Continue reading You’ve heard about “American Pie.” What about “The Parable Guy”?
"And the Lord said to Moses, “I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”" (Exodus 16:11-12). "And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the …
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well (Matthew 6:33). We worry about many things. Jesus speaks to us about the most important thing: "seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness." We may read Jesus' words and say to ourselves, "It's not as simple as …
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "...truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity--it is simply true and that is the end of it" - Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” - Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
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