Watch Out for the ‘A’ Word

“Your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor, you who practice deceit. You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth. You love every harmful word. O you deceitful tongue (Ps.52:2-4)!”

The object of this cutting psalm is Doeg the Edomite who, while David was on the run from Saul, informed Saul of David's location to gain Saul's favor. The dynamic of betrayal to gain favor with someone in power is seen…

Getting a Hold on Life

Problem: Looking without to see within

Solution: Looking within to see without

The introduction to Romans 5 is 4:23-25: “The words "it was credited to him" (Abraham) were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.”

If you have ever been on the top of…

Faith is Boots on the Ground

“Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. Do we, then, nullify the law by…

The New Norm; What Is It and How Do We Get It?

The intellectually disabled liberal mindset is after us to take 'old' values, discard them and come up with so-called new concepts to breed what is called 'the new norm.' It is actually the same 'old' anti-God self-elevation called sin masquerading as modern freedom from past inhibition. The 'new norm' is really anarchy of the individual mind, heart and spirit. It's rebellion against God and His people. We see it reflected in the mass…

Standing in Faith Romans 3:21-26 cont.

A saddened and frustrated architect looks at a collapsed building he had designed, goes back to his drawing board, surveys every detail of his blueprints and, in anger, sweeps his arm across the tables scattering the blueprints across the floor. What went wrong? Where are the flaws? Was it his design? No one is perfect but he had checked every drawing and had his subordinates recheck them. He begins to survey every step of the construction from…