There are, in the scriptures, numerous warning against being covetous.  The most famous of these is the tenth commandment found in Exodus 20:17, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” […]

In the past week this theme came out in the Sunday morning message:  how reliant we are on God’s transforming power!  This time, I wanted to share something very good that Spurgeon writes in His Morning and Evening devotional.  Enjoy! “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” — […]

In recent weeks this issue has come to the fore as the abortion debate typically heats up around election time.  I remember, vividly, watching a youtube video of a woman at the Democratic National Convention screaming passionately, “It’s my body!”  And, as usual, it got me thinking.  Is it her body?  This led to the […]

Always good stuff in the Psalms!  In my preparation this week a point that really spoke to me was Psalm 40:2, “He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock,  And established my steps.” David is speaking about how God has cared for him. […]

I get the privilege of spending many hours studying the word of God each day.  Today was Psalm 37 in preparation for Wednesday night.  It pointed out three things that are of value in the political season that we are in. And boy, are they relevant!  I have heard many say that this is the most […]

This week we move to Second Thessalonians, chapter two.  So much of these two short letters is devoted to the coming of the end and the things that will occur then.  One of these events is often called the great apostasy.  “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come […]

I am always amazed and fascinated by the Word of God.  It is so clear and perfect, meeting everything we could face with exactly what we need to know.  Supreme guidance for living in this world. Equally fascinating to me is how men and women deal with it.  Some embrace it readily, seeing what it […]

We are, as Christians, planted like a tree by the living waters.  Bearing fruit in season.  But that work is really all up to God. We rely on Him to make us all we can be.  Spurgeon says it so well: “The cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted.”  — Psalm 104:16 Lebanon’s cedars are […]