Many years ago, I attended Basic Youth Conflicts. A phrase you’d often hear was, “Please Be Patient. God Is Not Finished With Me Yet.” He never stops working to change us to be more like Jesus. And He won’t be done until we see Him face-to-feet. “I am certain that God, who began the good […]
When I was young, I liked TV shows about cowboys. I wore my six guns so often that one of Dad’s friends nicknamed me “Tex” (He called me that until he passed away). If you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said, “A cowboy.” I liked Gunsmoke, […]
If a person does not believe in God, then is there anyone to whom he gives thanks for a beautiful sunset, a rainbow, a walk in the forest next to a bubbling brook, or his daily meals? “For although they knew God [as Creator], they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, […]
When the Scripture uses the term “darkness,” it most often carries the negative sense of sin. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” (Isaiah 5:20) Darkness also describes the situation when the devil has […]
As people awoke that fateful day of the Deluge, most of them thought it just was going to be another average day. Jesus said that in the same way, most people will be oblivious to His return. “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son […]
We first encounter Gideon in Judges 6, attempting to hide his harvest from the Midianites by threshing it in the recesses of a winepress. Because of Israel’s rebellion, God had allowed the Midianites to ravage their harvests and herds for seven years. Now God was ready to break Midian’s yoke and to use Gideon to […]
How safe are your valuables? Thieves can break into bank vaults and safe deposit boxes. However, Jesus made a promise that He could make a 100% guarantee that they are safe with Him. “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But […]
Once again, our city has been struck with a snowstorm. The news channels today show the cars that were abandoned on the highways last night. Where do people go after they leave their cars? Do they hike down the highway until they come to an exit? Do they climb over the barriers and knock on […]
The “last days” spans the centuries between Jesus’ first visit to earth all the way up to today. The event that will close the last days is the Second Coming of Christ. I imagine that every generation has wondered if theirs was the last of the last days. Obviously, we are closer to His return […]
I started thinking about mercy when, in my daily reading in Exodus 25, I read about the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark in the Most Holy Place was a box made of wood overlayed with gold. Inside it was the law God gave to Moses. The lid of the Ark was made of solid […]