“… But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15, NKJV) There are characters of the Bible that stand out because they stood up!  Joshua, who from his younger days as a slave in Egypt … through the wandering days of the wilderness … to becoming the man God wanted […]

“But indeed, O man, who are you to replay against God?  Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why have you made me like this?’ Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?”  (Romans 9:20, 21, NKJV) […]

“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.” (Deuteronomy 25:17-18, NKJV) A company by the name of […]

  “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.  In this you have done foolishly …” (2 Chronicles 16:9, NKJV) The thought that we might be having a heart attack is frightening to say the […]

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”       (3 John 4, ESV) It was one of those humbling … bring-you-down-to-earth … I get it … statements.  As my wife and I were trying to get things packed up and ready for a move a number of years […]

“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?  It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.  You are the light of the world.  A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.  Nor do […]

“We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed … always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body”  (2 Corinthians 4:8-10, NKJV). The scene […]

“Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!  I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old; things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.  We will not hide them from their children, but […]

“These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.” (Psalm 50:21, ESV) The more things change … the more they remain the same!  Right?  Right!  Just watch styles of clothing for men and women … […]

“He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.” (Psalm 111:4, NKJV) Memory!  Need I say more?  The older we get … the more information we garner … the busier we seem to get … there is just not enough room for all of it!    And so […]