Written the Fall of 2018: The sky is blue, the sun is bright, the air has a coolness to it, the leaves are falling and the coffee is good. What a good day! Then I read the paper - ugh! My, if we aren't a mess! The price of steel is way up, there are... Continue Reading →
I Peter 1:2b, Grace and peace be multiplied. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are kept by... Continue Reading →
Romans 8:13, For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Colossians 3:5, Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Romans 6:6-7, Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin... Continue Reading →
It is amazing to me how people are all over the map as to the ebb and flow of the last book of the Bible, John’s Revelation. I take it literal unless clearly otherwise and I take it chronologically as laid out to John. It is also amazing to me that so many either shy away... Continue Reading →
God opted to build a tool – a vehicle - to bring to mankind His truth, will, ways and works and to bring to mankind His Savior and King - Jesus. God manufactured a beautiful, powerful, and impressive truck and called it "Israel". God loaded it with His freight and put it on the road to... Continue Reading →
Some additional thoughts about the text used in the message at SSB yesterday: 1 Peter 4:4-6 reports on “those” who think ill of God’s people - those upper story people who no longer join in the doings, thinking, and chatter of the world, but are about following the will of God. The lowers talk badly... Continue Reading →
The non-saved like to claim "free will" in that they can choose which brand of automobile they want, its color, and the amenities, as long as they can pay the price. They think they have free will to choose which restaurant or shirt or church they want. They think they have free will to marry whom they... Continue Reading →
C.S. Lewis talked of the cancer fight and passing of his wife as “shadowlands”. Life has also been described as existence in a fog or in the grey. I think those are all appropriate terms for this life with its times of joy and celebration mixed with seasons of weeping and groaning. They all speak of... Continue Reading →
I Corinthians 3:6-8, I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. The only way a simple seed becomes a... Continue Reading →
Some of what was shared at the 2021 SSBC Sunrise Service. Romans 1:3-4, Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. God the Father declared to all mankind that the... Continue Reading →
a PK Musing 