Preparing for the Bad
Things are bad. Things are really bad. You hear the news and all the conflicting reports about the economy, but you know, inside your head and inside your heart, things are bad. You just don’t know how bad.
10th Jan2012
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04th Jan2012
Read the first chapter of Isaiah, then come back.09th Dec2011
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Some of you may know that phrase as the title of a novel by Ray Bradbury. Some of you may recognize it from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act IV, scene 1. In Macbeth, the wicked thing is the king himself, who, by this point in the play, has become a traitor and a murderer. In the scene, the witches are dancing around the cauldron, putting ingredients into a potion and calling out an incantation. The scene is set to tell the audience that these are wicked women, bent on sorcery. When the knock comes at the door, the “Second Witch” says that her tingling thumbs tell her that something wicked is at the door. Perhaps it should remind you of the phrase “it takes one to know one.”
01st Dec2011
Believe or Perish, Part 3
The Christian is acting on the greatest strength in the universe; the Holy Spirit of God. That is the power that moves the galaxies, sustains them, their orbits and all life forms therein. Yet, that strength is lost on those who fail to realize the depths of the love invested in them by God.
30th Nov2011
29th Nov2011
Believe or Perish, Part 1
Recently I came across an excerpt in a piece written by Malcolm Muggeridge that has brought together in my mind the solution to a problem which has troubled me for some time. “How does one keep his head when all about him there is chaos? If the risen Christ has promised “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee” how can one keep his composure in a world that is disintegrating (Psalm 11:3)1?
22nd Nov2011
The Blessed Seventy
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road. “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ If the head of the house loves peace, your peace will rest on that house; if not, it will return to you. Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for workers deserve their wages. Do not move around from house to house. “When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’ I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town. Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sack- cloth and ashes. But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
18th Nov2011
Children Are Their Oppressors
God says, Let us create man in our image and likeness (a living eternal soul) and give him dominion over the earth. Under obedience to God’s law,1 mankind is free to govern himself. Within creation we are bound to it’s realities. As part of creation we are beneath its creator. God is the King or Ruler of that system and the Bible is His law. It is fully sufficient for faith and practice in a good life.
15th Nov2011
Foolish Prophets
“It shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: (Joel 2:28).”
01st Nov2011
The Third Great Awakening
Among the headlines of the attacks on Herman Cain and the plane crash in Poland I see a little reported and barely visible article on Glenn Beck at John Hagee’s church announcing “the Third Great Awakening.” Glenn touts a return to God through his efforts to encourage solidarity with Israel and Hagee is a dual-dispensationalist from way back. This makes for an interesting mix; John Hagee and Glenn Beck. What’s so interesting? The fact that the crowd was an overflow crowd of more than seven thousand.
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