THE RESTORATIVE POWER OF GOD’S MERCY

All of God’s judgments have within them an expression of His mercy. His mercy has a limit, not on God’s ability to love sinful people, but on the extent and purpose of His judgment. People too easily think that God enjoys judging sin. Because of that...

THE FUTURE GLORY OF GOD’S TEMPLE

A coming revival in the Church will fill the Temples of God with His glory. In this covenant, the Temple represents our lives, not a physical structure. In the time of Haggai, the people had allowed God’s Temple to go unfinished. This incomplete representation...

THE POWER OF A BELIEVING REMNANT

The prophecy from Zephaniah is only three chapters long, but it is a panoramic view of what happens to a nation that abandons the Lord. Though their days were dark and foreboding because of their disobedience, with God, there would be hope for their future if they...

MORALS MATTER

Last night, I had an odd dream. I was standing in a field with a group of pastors. One of the pastors, a prominent leader in the Church, walked away in disgust when I mentioned the word “morality”. He said that teaching morality was a mistake as he walked away from us...

A MESSAGE FROM A HUMMINGBIRD

Each morning, as I water the plants in our front yard, a little hummingbird comes and sits on a wire that runs atop our Rose of Sharon tree. Its appearance is like clockwork. The hummingbird even sat patiently for me while I went inside our home to retrieve my phone...

WHEN HYENAS SHRIEK

I recently watched a video about hyenas. They make an annoying shriek. When an entire group of hyenas is shrieking en masse, it gives off a mocking sound. At certain times, the voices of disagreement we hear in our culture sound like a pack of hyenas shrieking in...