Gardening With Fear (Psalm 128)
“Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine within your house, your children like olive plants around your table.” (Psalm 128:3) The Holy...
“Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine within your house, your children like olive plants around your table.” (Psalm 128:3) The Holy...
“For he will never be shaken; the righteous will be remembered forever.” Psalm 112:6 At our core, we are designed with an inescapable...
“For you have made the LORD, my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place.” Psalm 91:9 The means through which the unthinkable...
The challenge God faces in seeking to set up His tabernacle among us is not that we make mistakes, nor that we sometimes get “off track,”...
When we first “put our hands to the plow” as we begin to follow the Lord, there is an exhilaration. There is an inner zeal to never look...
What a wonderful declaration of blessedness goes to the one “whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered,” and “to whom the...
In our day, when religious apostasy has attempted to redefine terms, to speak of "the blessed life" might conjure in our minds images of...
Many souls today are apathetic toward the gospel. “Be saved from this perverse generation,” is an appeal that sounds to their lost ears...
“Then Agrippa said to Festus, ‘I also would like to hear the man myself.’” (Acts 25:22) God’s will for our lives often seems like a...
The Bible portrays all people, with the exception of Jesus Christ, as mere mortals, flawed and often weak, yet greatly loved by God. This...
“And since he would not be persuaded, we fell silent, remarking, ‘The will of the Lord be done!’” (Acts 21:14) When we hold to an...
“… When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.” (Acts 18:26) What...
In our human nature, most of us prefer to receive a complete set of instructions and then go carry out the task on our own until it is...
Why do we need preachers? After all, the Holy Spirit is unlimited and all-powerful, able to go anywhere and open up the hearts and eyes...
If the judgment of Ananias and Saphira seems harsh to us, either we are misunderstanding it entirely, or we need to see the sinfulness of...
It is a principle of God’s kingdom that we will have the fruit of whatever we seek. That which you and I sow is the same thing we will...
We can learn from the work of the Holy Spirit even prior to the day of Pentecost. Jesus said of the Holy Spirit before His death that,...
Have you ever asked, “What does Jesus do when He comes to work in our lives?” In the third chapter of Malachi, the ministry of Jesus is...
The Lord asks, “If I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?” This question booms down the centuries...
We do not enjoy distress. We avoid situations in which we are out of control, so that distress will not multiply. Naturally, we might...