A WATCHMEN’S PURPOSE

The Lord has set individuals in His Church as watchmen. They take their posts on the walls of our lives as a representation of God’s mercy. The interpretive lens through which a true watchman views the surrounding world is the love of God. As the watchman offers his...

OUR GRIEVING GOD

While God is free to judge His people in any way and at any time He pleases, the majority of what appears to be God’s judgment is simply the consequence of our actions. The sad consequence of our sins and their accompanying misery grieves the Lord. In the book of...

A TACTICAL RELOAD

From time to time we need to top off our faith in spiritual warfare. No matter what we see around us, it’s important to keep our faith alive and functional should the need arrive to engage the enemy of our faith.  Training people with a weapon requires that we do...

THE SUMMER OF ’73

As summer winds down, I’m thinking of the summer of 1973. It was a special time. On Mother’s Day, I proposed to Jan, and we set the date of our marriage three months later. That summer was carefree and filled with expectations of a new life and a new future...

WHEN COMPLIANCE IS NOT LOVE

New mandates are being proposed. While choices were made the first time the mandates were instituted, choices based on the available evidence we had at the time, this time around will be different. Local congregations, business owners, and their customers have become...