We Were Made to be Creative

Creation is something that begins invisibly and become visibly present. If we talk about creativity, it is an invisible ability that begins in the invisible mind and takes visible shape. A visible shape is the result of a creative process. There is first, the idea that something needs to visibly exist. Then there is the mental planning and processing to arrive at the best way it can be…

The Sword and the Spirit

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2Timothy 3:16).”

 When people get a gift-wrapped present, some rip itright open to…

After the Virus, What?

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse (Rom.1:20).”

This comes after Paul’s strong double proclamation. The first part is about the new…

The Greatest Season

 This is the one begging for a description, so the Holy Spirit pushed John to write one down for the ages. No one before or since John could write about, see, feel, hear or taste what only John was given. If there is a time it is Heaven. If there is a season it is eternity. Few have had the privilege. Paul for one, John for another and a few of the prophets…

Of Time and a Season Part 16

 “…a time for war and a time for peace.”

 This is the clincher in the series. Here is where we get into the ultimate understanding of what we are really involved in as believers in Jesus. We are at war. But not in the military sense. The war is in the spiritual…

Of Time and a Season Part 15

 “…a time to love and a time to hate…”

 This takes time, prayer and the Holy Spirit. What does it really mean? Please read with a spiritually open mind and heart. It may be Solomon’s most important time and season statement in that it sets the stage for its fulfillment in the…

Easter 2020, Look Carefully! 

In the midst of an unseen life-threatening disease that separates us from one another, do you realize what year it is?

                                                             It’s 2020!

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The Cross

 Why is the Cross so central to our thinking as believers? People wear crosses to identify their belief in Jesus. They become a part of our dress, sit on our mantles, tacked on our front doors and are major markers in cemeteries. The fact that Jesus said we should take up ours may suffice for some but for others it is a serious question. Why did He choose to accept the…

Of Time and a Season Part 13

 “…a time to tear and a time to mend…”

 There is a consistent message throughout these verses that is calling us to shift from one thing to another. We are ridding the old and taking on the new. It seems very specific here with cloth in mind. When fabric gets…

Of Time and a Season Part 12

 “…a time to keep and a time to throw away…”

 Our trek into spiritual reality is our most important journey. What we have to realize is we take that trek every day. We are born with invisible senses that we use all the time to live out our existence. Shallow or deep, broad or wide, personal or impersonal, our mind, our heart, our spirit…

Of Time and a Season Part 11

“…a time to search and a time to give up…”

This raises an immediate question that King David brought up to the Lord, “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him (Ps.8:4)?”

The ‘Great Search’ is man’s quest for an identity, a destination and a way to get there.…

Of Time and a Season Part 10

 “…a time to embrace (Heb. chabaq) and a time to refrain (Heb. rachaq)

 All through the stories of Israel’s early history there is the intimacy of family continually expressed. From Abraham and Sarah to Jacob and the progeny that became the 12 tribes of Israel, the word ‘embrace’ had both a physical meaning and an emotional tying. Underneath…

Of Time and a Season Part 9

 “…a time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones…”

 There all kinds of stones, small and large, having all kinds of shapes and sizes, used to build walls, used as weapons, used to decorate, used to form foundations. But stones also are used as verbal symbols like, ‘solid as a rock’, ‘heart of stone’, ‘just another pebble on the beach’, ‘rolling stone’, ‘between a rock and a…

Of Time and a Season Part 8b

…a time to dance…

 Like all the emotional varieties we experience, there is a time to dance and the season to cover it. If Solomon is the author of Ecclesiastes it would follow that the experience of His father David’s past was in his mind. David had some things in his past for which there was not only regret and remorse but the weight of guilt…