Spiritual blindness is why it is hard to reach so many folks: In the ESV we find the terms “blind,” “blindness” and other forms of…
We are mostly blind to the darkness that is all around us: I was recently asked to talk about where we are at as a…
We are to call out evil while not being contaminated by it: Christians can be conflicted when it comes to calling out evil and sounding…
Some musings on the difference between my clock and God’s clock: We are very impatient people here in the West. We want instant everything. We…
How are you doing in God’s refining process? According to Scripture, God both tests and refines his people, and images of refining fires, crucibles for…
They are few and far between: One could go in all sorts of directions with a title like this. Am I talking about an honest…
To think biblically about political matters, believers need to look both to the past and to the future: There is a connection and a continuation…
We must take seriously our spiritual infidelities: Yesterday I wrote about the need to use the biblical pattern in our dealings with others – especially…
In praise of bad news: There might be some truth in the old saying, “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”. However,…
The fear of the Lord goes with love for God and the joy of the Lord: What Abraham said to Abimelech in Genesis 20:11 is…
Warnings must be given when danger abounds: Life is full of danger, risk, peril and misadventure. So many things can go wrong. So many traps…
Christians should grieve over what God grieves about: God’s people are meant to image God. We cannot resemble him in terms of things like omnipotence…
Church leaders must take some responsibility for society’s downward spiral: Hot on the heels of a very worrying federal election result, we need to take…
Who will prophetically speak truth to power today? The Bible certainly has a lot to say about justice. If I simply listed just some of…
God hates injustice and always deals with it: “The Lord is a God of justice.” So we read in Isaiah 30:18. Or as we find…
Um no, not all laws are just or moral: You can tell when Statist propaganda and leftist narratives are really having an impact: you get…
Scripture roundly condemns witchcraft and related practices: A recent headline caught my attention: “Scotland may pardon thousands of ‘witches’ it executed hundreds of years ago.”…
Discerning the times – and God’s will: OK, a mouthful of a title, bringing together a number of ginormous subjects. But there is a purpose…
Here are some helps as you study the book of Amos: The prophet Amos was a resident of the southern kingdom, Judah, but ministered to…