The Power of A Question

We are taught that science moves ever forward by good questions. Questions are said to be good when they are tested and verified by experimentation. The God of the Bible asked of the Jewish nation many years prior to modern scientific method to “test me in this”(Malachi 3:10); thus challenging His chosen people to experiment in His greatness [...]

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Conscience + The Bible + The Holy Spirit = Conviction of sin (Part 3)

So, the unrest deep within our soul is the conscience groaning and the Bible identifies this unrest as sin committed against God but it is the Holy Spirit who bears witness to Jesus as the only rest for our restless soul.  If we refuse to acknowledge the conscience we are willfully ignorant (because the knowledge is [...]

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Conscience + The Bible + The Holy Spirit = Conviction of sin (Part 2)

Continuation………………
Conscience informs us of a deep sense of unrest within our soul. If there is unrest in the soul then the only answer is rest. Humanity is on a constant quest to find rest. Think about it. We try to customize our lives around the over-arching goal of eliminating stress in hopes to find a [...]

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Conscience + The Bible + The Holy Spirit = Conviction of sin

      I just love reading Christian authors from past generations.  I am currently reading a wonderful little book by D.L. Moody titled The Overcoming Life.  In it, Moody makes some remarkable applications regarding conviction of sin.  Moody outlines the three things that lead to conviction, “(1) Conscience; (2) the Word of God; (3) the Holy [...]

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War

A few thoughts on Christian war:
The Bible calls men to life, not a picnic or holiday.  It is no pastime or pleasure jaunt. It entails effort, wrestling, and struggling. It demands putting out the full energy of the spirit in order to frustrate the foe and to come off, at last, more than a conqueror. It [...]

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Philosophy of Education

Anyone having spent any amount of time in the education field will have been asked to explain their philosophy of education multiple times.  I have been thinking more and more about my philosophy of education recently.   As a Christian teacher in a public school setting for the last six years, I often felt a battle between the philosophy (so-called) of [...]

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Welcome Home!

Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about home, of course, being brought on by the fact that at the moment we are homeless (not to make light of true homelessness).  Because of our travels and preparations for our new home in Thailand this thought has dominated my mind recently.  In all of this, I am challenged [...]

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On Whose Authority?

Of Jesus it is written…….
Jesus Teaches at the Feast (John 7:14-18 New International Version)
 14Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. 15The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having studied?”
 16Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes [...]

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Today’s Quote

From time to time I will include quotes that have come from my readings.  Here is one from one of the most prolific Christian authors of yesteryear. 
Here we have one of the great truths of the Christian life. The only real argument for Christianity is a Christian experience. It may be that sometimes we have [...]

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Poem for a friend!

I wrote this on May 13th 2002 after ministering to a friend who was struggling.

Chains
His mercy like a wave be found
In me, to lay my burdens down
In Him, I rest my life by day
My sins, my pride, on Him I lay
Though, not by me, do I deserve
His grace, His love, He did not swerve
To [...]

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