Facing Fear – Absolute Faith

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10. Today there is another reason for fear, in addition to the approach of...

Clear Consciences

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase. – Proverbs 13:11. When I was about five or six years old I was on a rare shopping trip with my mother. We were in a clothing store (Anthony’s) when I saw a $20.00...

Just A Little Fire

See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell....

When Things Go “Bump” In The Night

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. – 2 Timothy 1:7. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all...

Love Maintenance

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. – 1 John 2:19. And they continued steadfastly in...

A Grenade Proof Faith

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. – 2 Timothy 1:12. BMW has a new offering for those who...

The High Cost Of Rage

A wise man fears and departs from evil, but a fool rages and is self-confident. – Proverbs 14:16. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and...

The Advocate

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. – 1 John 2:1. When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him...

On Being Salt

But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets. I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there...

Hold Your Horses!

Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence. I would have lost heart, unless I had believed...