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Loving God…four times over

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.  Mark 12:30 In our passage before us today, we have the Lord’s reply to a scribe who came to him and asked Jesus what was the greatest commandment of all.  This was not …

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Have you “believed the love?”

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.  1 John 4:16 ESV This is a subject that hits close to home for me.  Being raised in a family setting where my real father left when I …

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Two Kinds of Righteousness

Technically speaking, there are three types of  righteousness listed in scripture.  And these three could be classed as: Imputed Righteousness, Personal Righteousness, and Self-Righteousness.  We all know much about the self-righteousness aspect of scripture, so we will not belabor this particular point in this article; as we wish to focus our attention on the first two.  And I believe most …

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Random Thoughts, Themes, and Conditions

Good morning to those of you who are really serving the Lord out of a pure heart.  For “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity.”  Psalm 24:3-4 The wording of this verse makes it very personal and individualistic.  (we give our own souls over …

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The Truth about Icebergs

Some quick facts: An iceberg is a piece of ice that has broken off one of the ice-shelves of Antarctica, or from the North Atlantic ice-shelves off Greenland.  They can come in many sizes (mass wise), and in many shapes.  The ocean water currents hitting against the iceberg is what gives it its shape under the water.  The density of …

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The Other Side of Grace

“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that He might redeem us …

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Immediately

By Mrs. Robert Hammond And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.  Mark 1:31 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed. Mark 1:42 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and …

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Liar, Liar – Pants on Fire

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 1 John 2:4 The person who does not love me does not obey my words. John 14:24 Our first verse before us today is the one from 1 John 2:4 where we learn that a professing Christian can actually …

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How much can I (we) give to the Lord?

“And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.”Gen. 22:2 Let me ask you a few questions.  Was Isaac the perfect will of God for Abraham?  Wasn’t he …

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A Well Balanced Meal (Spiritually Speaking)

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. Romans 11:22 Many folks want the gospel to be a spiritual buffet.  In other words, they just want to eat what they want to eat.  They treat the Bible and …

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Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Joel 2:1