Who are your enemies? Biblically, we can rightly regard our enemies not only as adversarial people or demonic forces, but any thought that undermines our trust in the Lord, steals our joy, threatens our peace, or inhibits our love. Our thoughts – no matter how bizarre or terrible they may be – do not define… Read More »

This morning I would like to share what for some of you will be a reminder, while others will be reading it for the first time.  I offer you three simple affirmations I composed from my own personal time with the Lord that have consistently helped me to remain focused on and inspired by the… Read More »

I used to possess the multi-layered idea that Jesus not only teaches us how to live the best possible life, He is the best possible life. That earth’s most magnificent wonders and my greatest pleasures are but samples of His person. Therefore, knowing Him and getting to know Him better each day is what our… Read More »

Today, I freshly realized that ultimately all this “life stuff” we deal with every day, and there is sooooo much of it, is about each one of us and the Lord. As believers, that is what our life story is all about. Of course, there are other elements to the story, such as my relationship… Read More »

The ideas of great thinkers of the past like Plato and Socrates continue to influence our world, but no one speaks of them as though they were alive today. But from the beginning, the distinction with Jesus has been He was dead and now He is alive. And still today, this Jesus, who lived so… Read More »

Heads up!  This is a dense one! As believers, we have been blessed with “every spiritual blessing in Christ” (Ephesian 1:3). One of those blessing is “the fear of the Lord” (i.e. reverence, respect and honor in our hearts towards Him). This is a direct result of the Lord’s promise: “And I will make an… Read More »

“for we are members of His body” (Ephesians 5:30). Membership in Christ has its privileges. Among these privileges are,A re-imagined spiritual life experience: “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of… Read More »

Psalm 30 is a perfect meditation for the Monday morning “blues,” or whenever you are just feeling “off.” For any reason. It is a brief, 12-verse elixir for gloomy mood management, if you will.  Among its phrases are the famous, “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning” and “You have… Read More »

“Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit for God” (Romans 7:4).   Through faith in Christ we die to the performance code required by the… Read More »

The other day I wrote in my journal, I cannot do what I cannot do, But I can do what I can do, And what I can do, through Christ who strengthens me Is enough to accomplish what God has for me to do. We look around at the world. We look at our families.… Read More »