The Valley of Deep Darkness
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me. Psalm 23:4 Sitting in the room as the Board of the PAYH met for their semi-annual meeting were Board members »
Thanksgiving In Your Veins
“Do not be deceived God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in »
Witches, Hobgoblins, and Soli Deo Gloria
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, »
World Series' Passion
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in »
A Community of Sinners
“To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ……[I want you to know]certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license »
Safety in Numbers
“They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. Acts 2:46-47 “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like »
Loving the Multi's
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything »
No Inverted Funnels For Christians
"For we are the temple of the Living God." As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people." II Corinthians 6:16 In a recent interview with Christianity Today, new Pope Francis had a lot »
Home, Sweet Home
"How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her »
The Essential Joy of Marriage
This week I have been with four couples in Skopje, Macedonia, three whom I married and the other whom I pastored along with them. I asked them what they had discovered in 25-30 years plus of being married to one another about marriage that was so important to their well-being »