"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)

"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)

Justice

On THIS Day- He Bore Your (and My) Hell

This was originally posted on Good Friday, 2023.  It includes some revisions. I am posting this on the day we celebrate each year as Good Friday. It is called Good Friday, despite the fact that everything that occurred on this day over 2000 years ago can only be described as evil; the betrayal of Jesus […]

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Anguish Beyond the Garden

The following was originally posted in April 2023.  It includes some minor revisions. It is the evening prior to the Jewish Passover, approximately 2000 years ago.  Jesus has completed His public ministry and has been spending the last few days of His life with His apostles, instructing them of His approaching death and how they

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By This We Know Love

The following was originally posted in April 2023.  It includes some minor revisions.  Do you know the love of God? Do you personally, intimately and experientially know the width and length and depth and height of the love of Christ which passes (human) knowledge. The Apostle Paul prays for Christians in Ephesians 3:14-19 that we

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Our Servant King

I suspect that every mother desires great things for her children, that they will grow up and become successful, dignified, someone who others respect and look up to, someone a mother can be proud of. No mother had greater aspirations for this than Mrs. Zebedee, the mother of Jesus’ disciples, James and John, also known

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GRACE and PEACE Multiplied

I began this blog over four years ago in the midst of COVID mania. It was the means by which I could best keep my mind on things above and not on the madness of this earth in obedience to God’s command in Colossians 3:1-2, and to present God’s offer of true peace, comfort and

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Thankful for THE GOODNESS AND GRACE OF GOD

The Bible reveals to us from Genesis to Revelation that God is good, that it is His essential nature and eternal disposition to be good; that all of His creation, all of His commandments, all of His promises, all of His providential actions throughout human history are expressions of His goodness – of His infinite

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How To Pass from Death to Life

The promise of eternal life, escape from perishing forever in the second death, and restoration to the glorious life and relationship with God for which man was created and lost because of sin, is a great and precious promise made by the eternal, triune God who created us for His glory; to know and behold

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Worshiping God-My Way

The conclusion of the 2024 Olympics in Paris was marked by singing of the “great” American anthem exalting human autonomy, self-determination, self-will and ultimately self-worship, namely the Frank Sinatra classic, My Way. This was of course after having in the opening ceremony, a blasphemous parody of Leonardo da Vincci’s “The Last Supper”, a painting depicting

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