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There’s something mysterious about the word “ancient.” Sometimes it can play on the invisible strings of your emotions, hauntingly compelling your innermost being to rise above and beyond your present state to explore the hidden and elusive secrets of the ancients; their knowledge, power, mystical monuments, inscriptions, symbols and deeply embedded spiritual beliefs and practices. […]
“In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.” – Psalm 94:19 Out of the blue, a friend asked me recently, “What do you think about all the time?” Without hesitation I responded with one three-letter word, “God.” I suppose the quickness of my answer before analyzing the question for three […]
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” – 2 Corinthians 11:3. Time, like a broad flowing river, seems to be picking up speed as it threatens to pull mankind ever deeper into its dark, […]
The rebuke and instruction of our Lord to the Apostle Peter as recorded in Mark 14:37-38, are as applicable to those of us who make up the Church today as they have been from that time to this. Jesus said, “Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, lest ye […]
Most likely, if given a choice between best or mediocre, we would all choose the best. And why not? Who, in their right mind, would choose an old beater over a brand-new vehicle, or who would choose to live in a run-down, leaky shack instead of a beautiful, well-built home, complete with professional landscaping and […]
“Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: For great is the glory of the LORD.” – Psalm 138:5 The Word of God is a revelation by the Spirit of the glory of God, yet fallen man is blind to both glory and truth until the Holy Spirit opens his spiritual “eyes and […]
To say that we live in “interesting times” is an understatement. Based on the Word of God, we are living in the days described by the Apostle Paul to Timothy, such as the following prophetic facts, beginning with, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come” 2 Timothy 3:1. We all […]
Memories, facts and feelings, like waves upon the shoreline, come and go. Some are stronger than others, thus, while many are faded or forgotten in the mists of time, there remains those that are grafted into our minds and hearts, as if anchored by an incomprehensible and indestructible power. Such is the unforgettable, manifest, enveloping […]
There’s an old saying that goes like this, “When March comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb.” What this obviously means is, if the wind is blustery and howling with rain pounding on your house in the beginning of the month, then by the end of the month the soft breezes […]
What comes to mind as we embark on another new year are these words from the well-known and beloved hymn, “Amazing Grace,” “Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; ‘Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.” It has always amazed me how jubilant and excited […]