Take Heart


What we experience in any one day is not the sum of God’s creation.  Take heart.  What we experience in this fallen world is not the sum of God’s creation. Look to Jesus!  He desires to love us into His Kingdom.  He is love.  Any who have found His tender embrace will testify the same.

There is No God


Gossip abounds.  Slander paves the roads of man.  Lies are grease to  financial prosperity.  Power is wielded without tenderness.  And order is kept at the point of a gun.  The way of man appears before us gilded by violence.  Little wonder many support the accusation that there is no God. What little peace a man … Continue reading →

The Good Morning News


The chaos of the morning news is no place to seek the Lord of Life.  On the other hand, such chaos might jar a wayward soul into looking up.   If in that looking up, the wayward soul finds salvation, I guess we could give thanks for the absolute horror that is man. “. . . … Continue reading →

Go Back!


“Do not say, ‘Why were the old days better than these?’ For it is not wise to ask such questions.”  (Ecclesiastes 7:10)  Righteous does not belong to a day.  It remains a timeless present. The disease of sin has tainted every day of man.  Sickness abounds regardless the advances of technology.  Poverty may be chased … Continue reading →

Set Your House in Order.


How many times in your life were you pretty sure you were about to die?  Yet you’re still here to read this.   But what if the Lord came to warn you that your time was nearly finished here?  What a great kindness.  Who can testify that this has happened to them?  I suspect a few … Continue reading →

Self Plundered


It is no great difficulty to parade as a Christian when times go rather well.  Tiny set backs can be surmounted by the slightest reserve.  And when our possessions are confiscated, we have little difficulty perceiving that we are being counted as one of His children.  For we know that the world strives to retain … Continue reading →