Overturning Satan’s Schemes God will turn Satan’s plans against us back upon his own head. The Jewish feast of Purim celebrating Haman’s defeat reveals this reality. “In the twelfth month … on the thirteenth day, the time came for the king’s command and his decree to be executed. On the day that the enemies of […]

Live Long and Prosper If you are a Star Trek fan you would remember Dr. Spock’s raised right hand, with his fingers parted in the Vulcan salute saying, “Live long and prosper.” Actually the hand sign comes from a Jewish priestly blessing. The fingers separated in this way signify the Hebrew letter “Shin,” which stands […]

A Clean Conscience We all have a conscience, and while we may be able to analyze it through philosophy there is no way of controlling it. The conscience has been defined as that still small voice that tells us what we’re doing is wrong, or that which feels bad when everything else feels good. And […]

Begin Building Most Christians have the attitude that as long as it doesn’t affect the way they live then they’ll follow the Lord and attend church. We want to be comfortable and have our needs met with little if any consequences. And this includes our church attendance. And what ends up happening is we don’t […]

Humanity’s Greatest Need The existence of God is probably the most important topic or issue facing our crazy mixed up world. That’s a heck of a statement considering all the horrific acts of terrorism we’re seeing, all the wars that are either happening or that are on the verge of happening, the increase of deadly […]

Fringe Benefits What was it about the fringe of Jesus’ garment that had people clamoring to touch it? We see this in the woman who couldn’t stop her menstrual bleeding. When she heard about Jesus she secretly came up behind and touched the hem of His garment, and immediately was healed. (Mark 5:27-29; Luke 8:43-44) […]

A Brief Moment of Grace Today as never before we need a revival, but what that entails is repentance on our part, which means turning from those ways that displease the Lord. One such area is how the church, and we as believers, have intermarried ourselves to the concepts and philosophies of the world. This […]

Bad Blood When there’s some sort of feud going on between individuals, we say that there is bad blood between them. It’s a feeling of intense hatred. Spiritually what you might say is that before someone came to know Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord there was bad blood between them and God. But […]

Comfort God’s People Whenever we speak, we’re not speaking for ourselves, but for the Lord. Therefore, we need to be careful in how we respond to others. Eliphaz was once again rebuking Job saying his present distress is because of sin, and instead of being distraught Job should be happy that God is reproving and […]

Hurtful Labels How often have we used labels in describing someone? We use names like ‘stupid’ or ‘dumb’ to describe their cognitive ability, or ‘pencil pusher’ and ‘shyster’ to describe their profession. Each is meant to degrade and denigrate. Elizabeth, John the Baptist’s mother, was once defined by her childless condition. “Her who was called […]