Posted: 13th January, 2012
God, Man, and Time: The Pressure’s Off
As we begin the New Year, it is a good time for each of us, regardless of age or station in life, to consider the time that we call our life.
Why should we do this? We do this because it is essential to learn to live right. It is important to make every moment that we have in this life count.
Psalm 90 helps us to do this. It has a powerful message for us about time. You see, in order to live in a manner that is pleasing to God (which is truly the best way to live), we must come to understand time as it relates to God, man, and the rapidly passing moments of our life. We must come to know…
Posted: 1st January, 2012
God, Man, Time
As we approach the close of this year and the beginning of the New Year, it is fitting for each of us to pause and reflect on where we are – where we stand spiritually in our relationship to God, where we stand interpersonally in our relationship to others, and where we stand vocationally in how we have worked and used our time.
It is so easy to forget or ignore the things that are most important, the things that are of first priority. This omission then affects every aspect of our life. For many of us, time just slips away…
Posted: 25th December, 2011
The Climactic Battle of History that We Call Christmas
There is so much more to the birth of Christ than the day an emperor long ago called Christmas.
The ultimate reason for the coming of the Messiah is not to bring peace on earth, nor is it to bring hell on earth. It is, though, to lead the war on earth – the war against hell. You see, the birth of Christ centers not around a child, but around a raging war between God and the devil…
Posted: 17th December, 2011
The Ultimate Focus of Christmas
We are about to enter the most stressful week of the year…
The week before Christmas,
where all through the house,
not a creature was peaceful, not even a mouse.
The reason is simple, the reason is clear:
The message of Christ was not anywhere near.
The only thing meaningful was shopping and buying;
Christ was absent, His heart must be sighing…
Posted: 11th November, 2011
The Final Remembrance Day
We live in the midst of a war, a war which, although unseen, involves every single person and is evidenced all around us. It involves all people, and all the earth.
This is the war which, when finished, will really end all wars. This is the ultimate war, the real war, that supersedes all wars. This is the war which will culminate in the final Remembrance Day of all of history. And this is the war, which, amongst all the other wars we face and have faced, we must not forget…
Posted: 12th September, 2011
The Only Unshakable Kingdom
For these past ten years following 9/11/2001, people from every nation and every religious background have been trying to make sense of what happened that day, and have been trying to see what lessons have been learned from it since that time.
In the face of the ideas that people have come up with – some of which are good – I have been troubled that one lesson in particular has never emerged…
Posted: 16th July, 2011
Thinking has Consequences
“What luck for rulers, that men do not think.” These were the words of Adolph Hitler. Shocking, isn’t it?
Now, of course, we all think to one degree or another. That isn’t the point. The point is that thinking is powerful, and that we often live thoughtlessly – without really thinking seriously about anything, let alone about what we are thinking, or how we are thinking, or what we allow ourselves to think and not to think…
Posted: 14th May, 2011
The Trouble Filled Treasure is Still a Treasure
God is teaching us through the inevitable sufferings in our lives that life in Christ is a priceless treasure; even though such a treasure seems hidden by our frail, weak, broken, decaying bodies. The treasure is this: God’s glory will be displayed even more brightly in that setting of suffering and brokenness.
As we rely more and more on God’s power, such a display deepens our knowledge of God’s glory. What is even more amazing is that, through it all, God is teaching us that if we know Jesus, then no matter what we face, His love makes it all worthwhile…
Posted: 12th April, 2011
The Trouble Filled Treasure Called the CHRISTIAN Life
When Jesus Christ is filling our lives, something interesting happens. Do you know what it is? We stop whining about our problems. We stop crying out: “O God, why me?”
We know that life is like this, and even more so, we know that life in Christ is like this. Instead, we learn to take a hit, and we are not, as Peter says in 1Peter 4:12, “surprised at the fiery ordeals we have to face” …
Posted: 26th March, 2011
The Trouble Filled Treasure called Life
I want to ask you a simple question: How do YOU see your life? Do you ever stop to realize that the bible teaches us, and reminds us, that our lives are “treasures that we are given in these earthen bodies or clay pots” (2Corinthians 4:7)? What an amazing view of life! It is a treasure, from the inside out!
On some level, we all know this about our lives…
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