Jim Novell

Time has been a noted theme in pop music over the years, particularly in my heyday of the 1970s.  From that era, we have Chicago’s hit recording, Does Anybody Really Know what Time It Is? (“Does anyone really care”).   We have the classic hit from Pink Floyd, Time, with its chastening lyrics “ticking away the moments […]

The Bible reveals that God created mankind in His image and likeness for His glory; that we would find our greatest joy and pleasure, our ultimate satisfaction and significance in knowing and loving and being loved by Him as His beloved children, willingly obedient to His wise and loving fatherly authority.  It also reveals that

In Matthew 26:36-46, Mark 14:32-42, Luke 22:39-46 and John 18:1-11 we see Jesus in what is referred to as the Garden of Gethsemane, on the Mount of Olives, a place we are told He came frequently to pray.  He has just spent the evening celebrating the Jewish Passover with His eleven closest friends on earth,

Isaiah 53 is the prophecy of what is commonly referred to as the suffering servant – the Holy one of God who in Isaiah 49:5-7 is foretold as the one who will redeem Israel from its exile from God and bring the light of the glory of God (of the infinite perfections of His being)

I have addressed over the past few posts, mankind’s desperate and dire condition as sinners before a Holy God, subject to God’s justice, objects of His righteous judgement and wrath for our rejection of His purpose for and rule over our lives.  I have written of what the Bible has to say of the destructiveness

The late Dan Cummings, beloved pastor of Five Points Community Church in Auburn Hills Michigan, which I first started to attend back in 2006, preached a sermon on the glory of God’s “transcendent mercy.”  In this sermon he asked this series of searching questions: “Do I feel the eternal weight and misery of my sin?

Psalm104  Bless the Lord, O my soul!O Lord my God, You are very great:   You are clothed with honor and majesty,Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot,  Who walks on the wings of the

If you are reading this it is not too late!!!!  Over 2000 years ago it was too late for me! ☹  I went through my short life in your world, believing that I was a good man, at least better than most.  I was thought of by others as a good husband and father, a

Before I offer thoughts regarding God’s ultimate expression of His wrath and judgement, namely consignment of unrepentant sinners to Hell, I want to offer Biblical reasons for why Hell – eternal torment, is a just response to mankind’s sin, our willful opposition to our creator.  Such understanding is necessary if we are to ultimately praise

Woven throughout the Bible, from the first Book of the Bible called Genesis, which tells us how this world and life in it began, to the final book of the Bible called Revelation, which tells us how this world will end, we have innumerable revelations of God’s goodness, kindness and grace, but also of His