2022: CONSIDER YOUR WAYS?!
The minor prophet Haggai quoted this phrase in chapter 1 verse five. He said, “Consider your ways?” Modern day, with all that's going on in our inner circle as well as across the Pond, this phrase means, reflect seriously open your affairs, whether they are consistent with the reason of things that are happening around you. God is saying, “Set your heart upon your ways, in relationship to what you had been doing, what you are doing, and where those
THE DANGER OF COMPROMISE (Part 2)!
Talking to and with a number of pastoral and ministry leaders around the country over the past several months, during the Covid-19 pandemic, it was obvious that the central theme of our conversations was, “How badly [statistical wise], have we missed the mark/opportunity to fulfill the mandate given by the Apostle Paul – whom I believe wrote the Book of Hebrews – in 5:12, “You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you
why bad things happen to God’s people: q&a [updated]
Q: Can YOU explain in layman’s term: Why God permit bad things to happen to good people? A: Thanks for the question. First, let’s answer the last part of this question: who are these so-called ‘good people?’ If I remembered correctly in my undergrad course, Introduction to the Bible, there’s none good but God! In scripture, Mark 10:17-18, “And when He was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked Him, Good Master, what
GOD WITH US!
GOD WITH US! Many people see Christmas as a time to think of the baby Jesus in a manger. And in a humbling manner, there’s nothing wrong with that thought process: but the central truth of the Christmas story is this: God wrapped Himself in human flesh as an infant, in a manger. So, this Christmas, let’s think of the great truths of the Incarnation. It’s remembering the birth of Christ and the mystery of the Incarnation, that’s found in 1 Timothy
We Are Commanded To Rejoice “Always!”
We are COMMANDED by Almighty God to “Rejoice Always!” Elsewhere in the Bible (particularly Philippians 4:4), we are commanded to “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.” In order for us to "rejoice always," we must first, do what is commanded of us in verse 17, "pray without ceasing." When we learn to give God proper thanks in “All thing,” … not for all things, as happening for the best, knowing that He’s working it for our good,