by office | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog Home
I can’t remember the first time I heard the phrase “under the circumstances.” I do recall that it had to do with people being under pressure and trying to maintain some kind of joy and victory even though their circumstances were weighing them down...
by office | Dec 18, 2014 | Blog Home
Shirley and I were watching a dramatic television show recently where a young woman and her husband were happily on the way to the hospital to deliver her firstborn. But on the way she and her husband were involved in a tragic auto accident. Both of them were alive...
by office | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog Home
The beloved Paul prayed for the Ephesians (and us) that “… the Spirit of wisdom and revelation would enlighten our hearts …” (Eph. 1:18). To be so enlightened means the Lord Himself continually explains to us the reasons for the good and evil on earth as...
by office | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog Home
Having sought to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus for over 60 years and to disciple others as well, I have come to a solid conviction about the only three possible attitudes that a Christian can have about their following of the Lord. Those three mindsets or attitudes...
by office | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog Home
A Testimony of Greatness “When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me, I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given me. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in...
by office | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog Home
I’m a committed believer in the fact that all reality is triune. Nothing really exists for us or has full meaning unless we see the three parts, the three essences, the three facts, the three expressions that make it what it is. This given in our creation begins...
by office | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog Home
In the book I’m working on I have a chapter on the subject of The Spiritual Scale to Lamb-Lion Splendor. I discuss the two high points of these two great words – Lamb and Lion – and what they should mean for us in our daily Christian walk. In the Gospel of John...
by office | Sep 18, 2014 | Blog Home
No matter how many years we have known Christ or how fervent our belief in the Scriptures, we will never be totally free from the attacks of discouragement. Even in my 80s and having known the overcoming strength of the Lord Jesus for 64 years, I have been solidly hit...
by office | Sep 11, 2014 | Blog Home
I have lost count of those days in my life when I thought that things couldn’t get much worse. The issues we can blame such emotional trauma on are legend. We all have our lists of those special agonies that trigger our deepest fears. Even though I consider myself a...
by office | Nov 19, 2013 | Blog Home
One of my goals in writing is to bring immediate help to every hungry Disciple who knows they want more and need more of Jesus, fast! It is to those who have the spirit and urgency of David that I write. Listen to his words: “Hasten to save me Lord, come quickly to...