If anyone sins in that he is sworn to testify and has knowledge of the matter, either by seeing or hearing of it, but fails to report it, then he shall bear his iniquity and willfulness. – Leviticus 5:1, KJV Sometimes – maybe most of the time – we just don’t want to get involved.… Continue reading Don’t hold back when you testify.
Category: Character
You can learn a lot in 80 days and 80 nights.
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. – Exodus 24:18, King James Version (KJV) A lot of times, we just don’t get what God wants us to get the first time around. So, He keeps… Continue reading You can learn a lot in 80 days and 80 nights.
Significance ain’t what you think it is.
Humble yourselves feeling very insignificant in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you He will lift you up and make your lives significant. – James 4:10, Amplified Bible (AMP) The desire to be significant is what drove Satan to sin against God. Later, Satan used this same desire to tempt Eve into… Continue reading Significance ain’t what you think it is.
Be careful about what you say in the restroom.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. – Psalm 139:4, King James Version (KJV) The other day I had the pleasure of watching my elder daughter’s high school basketball game. During the final moments of our team’s victory, one of my daughter’s teammates – whom… Continue reading Be careful about what you say in the restroom.
The business of occupying.
And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. – Luke 19:13, KJV According to Harry Heintz: “During his 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy often closed his speeches with the story of Colonel Davenport, the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives: On May… Continue reading The business of occupying.
Stable or unstable?
Speaking of this as he does in all of his letters. There are some things in those [epistles of Paul] that are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist and misconstrue to their own utter destruction, just as [they distort and misinterpret] the rest of the Scriptures. – 2 Peter 3:16, Amplified Bible… Continue reading Stable or unstable?
Lessons from Reuben.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. – Genesis 49:4, KJV Reuben was Jacob’s (Israel’s) firstborn son, but he was neither preeminent in the family nor preeminent in the history of the nation of Israel. Why is… Continue reading Lessons from Reuben.
To die is Christ.
…to die is gain. – Philippians 1:21b, KJV As you live this life, you will be faced with three basic circumstances: 1. Life is good 2. Life isn’t good 3. Death All of life’s computations and permutations fall into one of these three categories, and how you face each category – with or without Christ… Continue reading To die is Christ.
To suffer is Christ.
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; – Philippians 3:10-14, King James Version (KJV) As you live this life, you will be faced with three basic circumstances: 1. Life is good 2. Life isn’t good 3. Death All of… Continue reading To suffer is Christ.
To live is Christ…
For to me to live is Christ… Philippians 1:21a, King James Version (KJV) As you live this life, you will be faced with three basic categories of circumstances: 1. Life is good 2. Life isn’t good 3. Death All of life’s computations and permutations fall into one of these three categories, and how you face… Continue reading To live is Christ…