“To walk humbly with your God”; these are the words of Micah the prophet that we were looking at in our previous article.  Perhaps as we ponder this thought, our minds must come to the realization that God is awesome, powerful, majestic and wonderful – and we are not!  He is God of all the universe – and we are not!  He is the creator and sustainer of all that exists – and we are not!   Okay, point made, we must walk humbly with our God.  We reach back approximately 2700 years to grab this quote from the prophet Micah.  He was sent to the two capital cities of God ..read more

Do you like to go for walks?  Many who live in the town of Elk Horn (where I live) know that Sally and I enjoy a good early morning walk.  Sometimes (not often) one of us may be ill or out of town and the other has to walk alone.  Let me state right here, it is not as enjoyable!!  To see the new flowers of spring and yet have no one to share with; well, it’s just not as enjoyable.  To witness a bright, full, early morning moon, knowing that the sun rise is just minutes away is a lot more fun when a loved one is there to share it with.  Or what about the star fille ..read more

How powerful are words?  Concerning His own “words”, God said this, “Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away.”  Wow!  That is a long time.    In our previous article I mentioned that God spoke and the heavens and the earth were created.  God’s words are powerful!!   Here is how the apostle John begins his gospel, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”  We may wonder what John is saying here but he goes on to explain, “(this Word) was in the world, and though the world was made through Hi ..read more

The words we speak are important!  We say many things in the course of the day; some of them are off the cuff and some of them are deliberately formed to try and get across a point.  I would go on to say that words are powerful – I believe you have heard the saying that “the pen is mightier than the sword”.  So, if words have power, how should we form and evaluate the words that we speak on a daily basis?   Let us first consider God’s words.  Genesis 1:3 says, “And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light.”  If we look at each of the six days of creation ..read more

Have you ever noticed that we human beings seem to “seek the LORD” only when we are in trouble?  “O, LORD if you will only get me out of this jam, I will do thus and such…….”  You fill in the blank!  Somehow we seem to think that God is some kind of a deal maker.  “I’ll do something for you God, if you will do this for me.”    Allow me to share with you that this is not how God, who created the universe by His spoken word, works!  Sometimes we think that we are mighty big and mighty important people, but even King David (who was a man after God’s own heart) s ..read more

How much are you worth?  No, I am not interested in your monetary value, but I am interested in the intrinsic value of your life!  We could start off with a very familiar scripture and realize that we are “worth more than many sparrows” (Matt. 10:31); but that is not telling us very much.   So, how much is your life worth?  “He was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.”  We have been looking at Isaiah 53 in our previous articles and this quote is a contin ..read more

In Isaiah 53:1 the prophet begins by asking the question, “Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?”  Have you ever come face to face with a question straight from the word of God and realized that you had to have an answer for it?  If we are serious about the word of God then our answer must be yes! In the four gospels, for instance, Jesus asks some 300 questions.  The use of questions was a rabbinical way of teaching and Jesus was a master at it.  He had all the answers to every question posed to Him, after all He is the Son of God ..read more

I was looking at a scripture yesterday that got me to thinking.  It is not an unusual or obscure scripture but one that should be quite familiar.  It is found in the Gospel of John chapter 14:1.  But before I type it out, let’s fill in a little background. Jesus has just spent approximately thirty-three and one half years on this earth.  Of those years, He has been with the twelve apostles for about three and one half years.  When we get to chapter 13 of John we encounter Jesus partaking of His final Passover on this earth and the twelve are gathered around Him.  ..read more

I was reading an article a short time ago on the subject of “balance”.  The author was contemplating this busy world in which we live and the struggle we encounter as we strive to deal with balancing the many activities in our lives: family, job, exercise, sleep, entertainment and diet.    Did I leave anything out?  Well, yes, I probably did and I’m sure you might be able to add to this list.  The question that must be asked here is, where does God fit into our busy schedules?  Do we just figure that God has to fit into a one hour slot when we gather together with ..read more

Do you know what I love about that quote from our previous article?  The one in 2 Timothy 3:14-17?  It tells us that Timothy learned the Sacred Writings in his childhood.  In other words, someone was busy teaching this young child about the salvation of God. And of course, the message of salvation through a Messiah, sent from the Father, is taught in many places throughout the Old Testament!!  Now, if we go back to the first chapter of this letter to Timothy we read this:  “I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in yo ..read more