SILENT WATCHDOGS

God’s word confronts those who fail to teach in clear terms what offends God. These teachers refuse to say what needs to be said. This happened in the history of Israel just as it continues to happen in our day. By bringing the content of this word, what I am...

WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL

With yet again another conflict taking place in the Middle East and various parts of the Church trying to define the conflict and its perpetrators, the Lord still honors His pledge to Israel. We talk about the civil government of Israel as being different than the...
DISCARDED AND ABANDONED

DISCARDED AND ABANDONED

On a recent hike, I discovered the discarded door from an old, abandoned car. Over the years, the door had become a target. It was filled with bullet holes. The shot-up door resembles some of you who feel discarded and shot through by betrayal and abandonment. The...

THERE IS NO OTHER

The Lord spoke a powerful sentence in the middle of His confrontation of the people’s ability to create idols who cannot perform or stand on their own, “I have prepared you even though you do not know me” (Isaiah 45:5). All of our life is a...

Over Time

Jesus said, “I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). The word for “world” is the word “cosmos.” It defines all of humanity and its systems that are hostile to God. Because of that reality, the Church should be the least stressed group of people on Earth. Jesus...

TRUSTING IN GOD’S PROPHETIC REVELATION

When we learn about the gift of prophecy, our first lesson to learn is that it is God speaking, not a human. While God will use His servants to verbally transmit or demonstrate His message, it is God who is speaking to us. Knowing it’s His voice that is giving...