A few days ago, I posted the following quote on my Facebook profile: “Jesus said, ‘Go… and make disciples,’ not converts to your opinions.” – Oswald Chambers A friend wrote in the comments, “How do you know what Jesus said?????” It is a good question, and worthy of a thoughtful, honest answer. I responded, “By studying the Bible. He said plenty in there, and it’s the only way we can know what He did say.” As it turns out, it…
Yes! It’s time to wake up. Wake up to what is going on around us, if you haven’t already. Wake up to what it means for our own lives, and for our children and grandchildren if we don’t at the very least speak into their lives the truths of God’s Word. By nature, I am a quiet homebody, getting well into my senior years. I would be perfectly content to live out the rest of my days reading, writing, playing…
“The new is in the old concealed; the old is in the new revealed.” – St. Augustine I first heard that quote when I was a teenager, and it stuck with me. It refers to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, and the fact that God’s covenant of grace is evident throughout both. There are many prophecies and symbols of Christ’s death and resurrection, in the Old Testament, but the prophecies were not made clear until the New…
“The Bible talks about a false Jesus and a false Gospel. Jesus Himself speaks of this in Matthew 24:4-5 and Paul speaks of this in the beginning of his second letter to the Corinthians and warns of a ‘false gospel’ in his letter to the Galatian people. Which Jesus do you follow?” – Melissa Dougherty Had you asked me ten years ago if I’d ever been taken in by New Age teaching, I would have responded with a resounding, “No!”…
The 11th Commandment Such was the title of a children’s story my own children listened to countless times when they were small. It was about a family who were waiting for a guest pastor to arrive, and stay with them over Saturday night, before his visit to their church the next day. The parents were annoyed when a violent storm brought a stranger to their door, whose car had broken down nearby. They let him in most reluctantly, as they…
We Are at War! There is a war going on in the world today, and I’m not talking about Ukraine or other visible wars. This war is against us, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. We see it all around us in the perverse and wicked ideologies that have been in the works for decades, but have crept in and taken over most noticeably in the past few years. We see this all around us, not only in the…