Purpose: There are a lot of things that come to my mind, things which seem to have some importance. But when considered in light of the Eternal, all of a sudden those same things become much less important or even empty, vain. I don’t want to waste anyone’s time. So...
I recently received an email from an old friend. Here’s it what it said: In a way we all have similar decisions to make in life. We want security and in our culture financial security is at the top of the list. But we also find reason to risk our...
I’m not one to use words or concepts lightly. Some people will say it’s a “miracle” when they got a certain job or when their team won a game. It may well have been a miracle, but the term is used too lightly, too recklessly. Creation is a miracle. It’s...
I just love the way that Oswald Chambers puts things. Today he says this: “The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations” it is a picture of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His unhindered way with us.” As I...
I don’t look in the mirror often. Part of the reason is that I’ve seen myself often enough and I just don’t have the need to see what I look like anymore. I will wash my face, neck and ears. I’ll floss and brush my teeth. I’ll comb my hair....
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:” – Jeremiah 31:31 I met Genie and Nancy Lowe (mother and daughter) on the campus of Bob Jones University back around 1989 or 1990 at...
How Not to Pray – An Object Lesson by Ed Rodatus, 1992 Praying with Empty Words [Take an empty pitcher and “pour” into a cup.] Matthew 6:7 “And when you pray, do not keep on babbling [empty words] like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their...
Priorities of life I often need to remind myself of the priorities of life. Does what I am doing really matter? It can be a difficult question to answer. When we don’t bother to ask we’re too busy. But it will become important sometime in our life. We are wise...
Stand I’m part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have the witness of the indwelling presence and the power of the Holy Spirit Who is able to keep me from falling and present me faultless before the Throne of His Glory. I have stepped over the line. The decision...
The source of the problem: Satan the destroyer, deceiver, and author of confusion. Confusion causes disorder, disorder causes confusion. In addition: “For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will...