Surely Not I
The word of the Lord must have rocked everyone in the room, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me” (John 13:21). It had been just a few hours ago, they all had...
Clothed in Humility
I have been sharing the backcloth of my book, From Taskmasters to Tambourines, on its Facebook page for several weeks. The last few posts dealt with humility, and I wanted to continue the thought here. Oswald Chambers...
Beginning with the Older Ones
The short, seemingly unassuming phrases found in Scripture fascinate me. Rarely are they the main point in the context of what is being stated, but their inclusion is a nugget that always brings me to the question, “why...
Preparing For That Day…By Not Judging
If I were to guess the one Scripture used to justify personal vice, the one I hear most often, is the well-known passage from the Sermon on the Mount: “Do not judge so that you will not...
Love As a Treasured Possession
Such responsibility and designation of the Lord’s treasured possession written about in my last post could have brought Israel into an unhealthy and unholy sense of pride. So, the Lord let them know unequivocally both the why’s and...
Going Full Circle: From Praise to Practice to Praise Again
David had his pen in hand. He was about to catalogue some of the many, many blessings of God that he had experienced. In fact, he was going to go full circle (see Psalm 103:1, 22). But...