SOMETIMES (and often) you just have to say: “No.” I just came back from taking my beloved cat, Pewter, to the vet. Checkup time. No one told me there was construction there. No one told me to go to their other office – a different direction – instead. No. I actually got out of the car after first parking in the wrong lot (a dentist’s office building), turning around, coming back and trying again. I got out of the car…..
THESE ARE CERTAIN TIMES CERTAIN TIMES? AM I CERTAIN? How can I, or anyone in their God-given mind, deservedly say: “Don’t worry! We are living in certain times!”!? And if so, how could we possibly be right? Look around. Are we not living in uncertain times? Doesn’t it seem to you that everything is shaky? Does it seem the most important things we need just to survive are out of control: the economy, jobs, guarantees of absolute essentials? Does…..
HOW MANY WORSHIP? Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. I urge those fearful of the enemy, satan, hold Psalm 91 to your soul daily: Psalm 91 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most…..
DON’T HAVE THEM! MINNESOTA HAS BEEN HAVING A LOT OF SNOW THIS NEW YEAR. I am almost sixty-three now (this April) and I have asked people my age and older if they remember as I do: didn’t we get a lot of 30 below temperatures? do you remember that it never used to rain in the winter? do you remember the seasons being more defined? May was sunny and warm. April was rainy, windy and cold we had more rain…..
I pray in the name to our God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that you will stand in peace. God is for you and no one can overcome you! Your heritage as God’s chosen people is certain. Everyone who rises up against you shall be condemned! SHALOM! Isaiah 26:2-4 Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith. You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you……
INTERESTING TITLE, HUH? YES, it is… AND the analogy rocks! But I’ll get to that in a little while. Right now I want to point out to you that the dark and damning celebration of Halloween is once again over. Alleluia! The darkness is passing away: the Light has come! Halloween is a celebration of death easily seen as the costumes get gorier and gorier — and so very many people think: “That’s cool!” Really? Are you serious!? Children…..
IF THIS ISN’T A “JOY STORY” – NOTHING IS! God tells us in Romans 8:31-39 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then…..