Evening meditation: The Lord has had me for several days reflecting on the dual nature of one’s relationship with Him….captivated by His steadfast love AND enjoying intimate fellowship through living in righteousness. And the reality that we can know that...
Joshua 1:6-8 New King James Version (NKJV) 6 Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall [a]divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all...
As I was reorganizing my bookshelves recently, once again I came across a little paperback book published by a Methodist publishing house several decades ago: “Twentieth Century Mystics.” It was about the lives of a half dozen ordinary men whose devotion...
Carol Kent wrote a book years ago, “When I Lay My Isaac Down.” Although Isaac was promised and given by God, there came a time when God required Abraham to lay Isaac down, to sacrifice him. Or, as it turned out in that case, at the very least, to be...
Corrie Ten Boom: You’ll never learn that God is all you need until God is all you have. I have talked to several people in recent weeks who had all discovered this truth through difficult circumstances….losses due to death of loved ones or divorce,...
A group was discussing Revelation as part of its final “Through the Bible in a Year” study…It was speculated that the beast that rises from the dark, fearsome, and unknown abyss of the sea (that gets its authority and direction from the dragon) and...