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As another Easter comes and goes, and they seem to roll by faster as we grow older, I have felt an increasing receptivity to God’s love. His love was demonstrated for all eternity by the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus. The power of that love was mightier than any earthly...
Paul quoted the prophet Isaiah: “As the Scriptures say, 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.’ So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of...
Thirty years ago, Jan and I began to pray over our remaining time on Earth. We have prayed that we would end this life having remained faithful to the Lord and to each other. Our hearts greatest desire is that we would finish well. We want to live without bringing...
Evil in our world produces its own kind of progeny. It creates offspring sourced in ancient deceptions. This was revealed in Genesis 6 when the angels that had rebelled against the Lord in Heaven came to Earth and procreated with humans to produce what were called the...
My wife, Jan, inherited the DNA of her father. He was a missionary who built churches and seminaries in Central America. Jan is a very feminine woman – a woman who caught my eye and captured my heart over 50 years ago. There are some Christmases when Jan would prefer...
Yesterday, I was preaching in Portland, Oregon – a city that has been in the national news of late. Early in the morning, my sermon was ready, so I spent time in prayer about the service. It was during that time of prayer that the Lord gave me a prophetic word to...
It’s interesting how far our personal history extends into the past, and how far into the future it will be revealed. Yesterday, Jan and I were driving on I-5 in Oregon when we stopped at a rest stop north of Woodburn, Oregon. When I got out of our truck, I parked in...
I was driving my truck through town last week and noticed a vehicle in front of me being towed away. At the stoplight, I took a photo of the car. What caught my attention was the bumper sticker attached to the vehicle – "Please be Patient. Student driver." A student...
A new sign was recently placed at the entrance to the trails I hike each week. It is a sign that clearly specifies what is prohibited on the trails: horses and mules. It was the distinct prohibition of mules that caught my attention. Apparently, someone thought it was...
We can think that demonic possession only occurs in people. God wants to expand our understanding of this subject. The goal of demons is to possess anything - people, politics, governments, systems of commerce, even some churches whose theologies are being used by the...
As social issues heat up in America, some in the Church sadly reflect the thinking of unredeemed people, not the truths of God's Kingdom. We have been drowning in a pool of deception, and that deception has begun to influence the thinking of Christ's followers. The...
Looking across our nation, it's not difficult to see the cities and states where the devil is in control of politics. It is bearing increasingly bad fruit. God has another plan that is opposed by those who currently occupy seats of power. God's plan is to reveal His...
When the writer of Hebrews penned the words, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8), he was referring to the unchanging nature of the Lord. He was also writing a warning. The warning was mentioned in the next verse, "So do not be...
The most straightforward and uncomplicated acts of obedience are what will lead people into God's truth and align them with God's promises. There is a principle known as Occam's Razor. This theory originated from a man named William of Occam, who lived in the 14th...
I live in Oregon. I have a special interest in what is happening in Portland because it lies within the State of my residence. In the United States, we have an equivalent to the terrorist group Hamas. It’s called Antifa— a recently designated terrorist organization....