Catching up on what we learned last week
Last week we began looking at the vital subject of salvation.
We shared the story of a king and his subjects, and we left off at the point where the king declared you a criminal. And the price on your head was the death of a prince.
He also declared you and your entire family to be at war with him. ...
Salvation: the big picture
One of the things I thought would be great about starting this blog was to use it to give people an overview and/or a refresher on the vital subjects of Christianity.
So starting with this article, I am going to be doing precisely that.
And a great way to start is with the subject of salvation.
This week my job is to...
Our emotional life
The fruit of the Spirit is joy –that’s Gal 5:22.
I take this to mean that the Spirit wants us to be joyful. Happy.
This is emotional as well as spiritual and rational.
Now, our emotional life is very different from our mental life.
In fact, our emotions carry on a life of their...
Delivered from the Peril of Death
2Co 1:3-10
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by...
Is America worthy of being blessed by God these days?
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good...
The convicting ministry of the Spirit
We don’t want to talk about it.
I don’t like to talk about it.
More to the point, I don’t like to even think about it.
But we have to talk about it.
“It” is judgment. The Lake of Fire. The wrath of God.
In John 16:8-11, Jesus tells us...
A Revolutionary idea
We are coming up on the 4th of July holiday in America, which celebrates the time when our Founding Fathers started a revolution.
It was about liberty, it was about taxes, it was about a lot of things.
We are...
How to make your daily life meaningful
We have been listening to what the Lord has to say to us in Colossians 3. This chapter of the Bible teaches us the basic three-step of daily Christianity.
We put away the things of the old man.
We have our minds renewed with the word of God.
We put on the attitudes and behaviors of the New...
So we have been dealing with a group of difficult subjects over the past few weeks in these blogs.
So I decided it was a good time for a blog that will comfort and uplift us. Me included.
So this is simply some gentle writing about the love of God. No pictures this week –just soothing words from the Bible.
Which is OK to do from time to...