“Daddy, if God loves us, why does He hide?” I asked my dad when I was young. I don’t remember Dad’s answer but, knowing him, he gave me a thorough, accurate, and theologically correct answer. But, sometimes, we don’t need an expansive answer articulated to us. Instead, we need something we can grab on and …
My Military Draft Registration I’m old enough that I was eligible when America still has the military draft. Whether I wanted to or not, I had an obligation to my country to register for the draft – the pool of men from which the draft board selected candidates for military service. Our draft board had …
Have you ever driven your car when it begins to rain? As the torrent of rain floods your windshield, you turn your windshield wipers on. Immediately you discover a problem. You yell at your car, “I can’t see!” Helicopters, whirlers, twisters, or whirligigs It just takes a small leaf or whirligig (winged seeds from maple trees) to …
Seeds can be sown correctly, spaced correctly, fertilized correctly, but without good soil they will never germinate, they will never grow and produce fruit. So, what is “good soil?”
Let us not withhold the Spirit. Let’s allow His fruit to sweeten everyone we meet.
We must not think the way worldly people want us to think. We must not act the way worldly people want us to act.
We must open ourselves up to God for His healing to enter us, and for our praise to go to Him.
The book of Philippians provides us with a tremendous example of the “Quantum of Scripture.”
Our spiritual “deflector shields” (nod to Star Trek) collapse from exhaustion, repetition, and alienation.
God was eager for David to reach an age where God’s mantle for the covering, protection, and revival of Israel could be placed on him, His chosen king. I think that is why the original Hebrew word is “rushed.”
