Going Home After A Mountain Top Experience Our journey on earth includes highs and lows—ups and downs. Great victories are normally followed by great testing. Such was the experience of Moses after his holy encounter on the mount. While Moses was on Sinai with God there was a FIASCO back among his flock—“They have turned aside...
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“Everybody Needs A Little Jesus…”?
“Everybody needs a little Jesus in their lives,” was part of the radio advertisement for an upcoming Men’s Conference. These words were spoken by an NFL athlete, who is slated to give his testimony at this event. Not sure if the “little Jesus” phrase was referring to the relevance of Christ, or His dominance in...
Post-America Survival Guide
Understanding Our Times—Knowing What To Do And of the children of Issachar . . . had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.(1 Chronicles 12:32) The men of Issachar were astute men who comprehended their day. They understood where Israel stood in history, how they had gotten there, and possessed the...
Modesty
Incentives To Restoring Virtue In The Local Church Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, were “naked and not ashamed.” In this pristine environment there was no reason for them to be ashamed. They were innocent – their natures had not been warped by sin. The first couple was in a state of holy...
Brokenness: A Little Understood And Lightly Esteemed Virtue
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The popular slogan means as long as something is working—leave it alone! However, when it comes to the human heart, it’s not fixed until it is broken. “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit”...
The Sin Of Being Average
The Scandal of Lukewarm Spirituality The sternest of the seven letters written to the churches in Asia Minor was directed to the Laodiceans (Rev. 2-3). When God wrote a letter to the church at Philadelphia, He had nothing bad to say to them. When God wrote a letter to the Laodicean church, He had nothing good to say to them! Laodicea was neither good nor bad—not hot but not cold either. They weren’t…