Today is Ash Wednesday. The beginning of Lent is the perfect time to reflect upon who we are and our relationship to the God who created us. . God created us for His pleasure, to bring Him glory, and to accomplish this, He created us in His Image. Our purpose in living is to display […]
Moving from Nahum’s warnings that accountability is coming, it’s a good practice to take a sober self-assessment and life inventory. That’s one of the things Lent is all about. It’s a period of 40 days (not including the Sabbath rest) to look at our hearts and lives in preparation for Good Friday’s crucifixion of our […]
Who among us doesn’t yearn for justice, accountability? The evildoers. Yeah, that would be the only group. The rest of us look at people getting away with things and it leaves us feeling a range of emotions from depressed, to frustrated, to angry. Our available human recourses seem to vaporize before our eyes, and even […]
I’ve been accused (on more than one occasion) of being a dispenser of “hopium.” Perhaps it’s the plight of people with natural encouragement in their veins and fire-tested hope in their hearts. In the face of God’s discipline that some of us have experienced, a lesson learned is that there’s still hope. In the face […]
You don’t need a refuge when everything is peaceful and going swimmingly. It’s when times get tough that a refuge is sought as shelter from the storm. “The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in Him, but with an overwhelming flood He will make an end […]
A theologian I know lamented that “the church is functionally Marcionite…it treats the bulk of the Old Testament as non-canonical.” In other words, there is a prevailing attitude in the modern church that Jesus is the enduring “good God” of the New Testament. Oh, at one time there was a wrathful angry God of the […]
True Confession: I am a morning person. I’m typically up well before dawn. I situate myself with my Bible, my computer, and my coffee so I can watch the sun rise (which in Florida typically includes seeing the sun). Watching the sunrise each day sets my heart to right as the Bible tells me, “This […]
Born this day in Bethlehem is the Christ, the One who was born King, to take by Divine right the throne of His father David and to rule the remnant for eternity. “Who is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We have seen His star in the east and have come […]
Today, we enter an interesting point of divergence in our look at the remnant through Jesus’ genealogy. Yet we see God maintaining the remnant of faith and fulfilling Scripture. After King David in the genealogy, there are no similar names in Luke’s gospel to Matthew’s genealogy until we get to Shealtiel, the father of the […]
A remnant, by definition, is a small amount out of what was many. In the Bible, it often refers to what is left over after destruction. The remnant of the Bible is a people of faith, purified faith, having been tested and tried, and proven faithful in adversity. When God allowed adversity upon the remnant, […]
