Wrestling the Gender-Blender Monster

I watched two of my grandsons practice their wrestling moves during a team workout a couple of weeks ago. And it didn’t take long to recognize that a familiar form of perversion had once again breached the boundaries of… Read More

Seek Her as Silver!

Solomon certainly had the creds to preach about wisdom. But it wasn’t as if the Lord God just decided to lay it on him one day.  He asked for it, and he got it! Not only that, he was… Read More

Sharing in the Divine Nature

What would you do with the “keys” to the kingdom of the heavens? Whether you chose to peddle them to the highest bidder or loan them to your friends, one thing is certain:  Your life would never be… Read More

A Better Hope of Perfection

It used to be that we worked hard if we wanted to be included in something. We didn’t whine or act like a victim if we weren’t, because, believe it or not, that actually would’ve been regarded as… Read More

Are We a Body of Cowards?

My wife and I went to see the motion picture Gosnell the other day at a local movie theater. We went expecting to witness some of the documented horrors about a Philadelphia physician who was convicted a few of… Read More

Is Your Worship Rational?

Worship isn’t exclusive to Sunday mornings or private prayer.   Showing reverence or admiration for anyone or anything eventually provokes an attitude which surrenders attention, personal pleasure or profit to that particular object of devotion. In his letter… Read More

Verbs With Teeth

Verbs have always intrigued me. Just like other writers, the Biblical authors often used them to amplify the force of their intentions.  And I’m convinced that one of the most profound examples of this is revealed in a… Read More

Feeding On the Flesh of Life

I’d sure like to know what it tasted like. Manna, that is. In the ancient Writings of the Old Testament, it’s recorded as being “…like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.” [Exod. 16:31… Read More

Hooked On a Feeling

I love tools. Not only do they make me money, but they satisfy my instinctive male passion to manipulate things. However, my wife will testify that manipulation is a term of relevance, recounting the day I “manipulated” a… Read More

Living in the Hope of His Presence

Focus and absorb.  That’s the ticket. To the casual Bible reader, the apostle Paul’s first letter to “the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” might easily be overlooked as the literary… Read More