"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
(This post was previously published in August 2020) I continue on this dark, dreaded and scornful topic of sin, not because I find it fascinating or take some perverse delight in doing so, but because I believe that until we begin to comprehend the breadth, length and depth of our sin; how vile and detestable […]
This post was previously published in November 2022. King David is one of the most prominent, well-known figures in the Bible, mostly for his single-handed defeat of Goliath, whom David, as a young teenager, slayed with a well-placed stone from his slingshot (1 Samuel 17:31-54). Goliath was the gigantic champion warrior of the Philistines, Israel’s
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A number of years ago, I was conducting a Saturday evening chapel service at Grace Centers of Hope, a residential ministry to those struggling with homelessness and drug addiction. I began the service by offering ten dollars to the first person who could tell me what the number one cause of death in the United
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It seemed to be a quiet, ordinary night in the little Podunk-backwater town of Bethlehem, located about six miles south of the glorious capital city of Israel, Jerusalem, the site of the Jewish Temple. A teenage couple, we know them as Mary and Joseph, after about a week of rugged travel from Nazareth had arrived in
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In the beginning, God graciously designed and spoke into existence a spectacular universe of awesome wonder, and a planet within that universe of astonishing beauty and splendor. The ever-expanding universe was to be the theater of His glory, at night providing a cosmic light show of stars and galaxies and comets shooting through the night
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As I am struggling with spiritual brain fog (my self-diagnosis) regarding the weighty matter of the complementary nature of the glory of God’s compassion, mercy and grace with the glory of His justice, judgement and wrath, I have decided to re publish a post from March 2021 with the above title (with some minor revisions),
The title to this post is the answer to the great question that has been at the center of many of my recent posts, namely how can a fallen man or woman, spiritually dead in trespasses and sin, following the course of this present evil world, following the prince of the power of the air (the
In Isaiah Chapter 2, we have the prophecy of the “Day of the Lord”, which typically refers to the time of God’s final judgement on a prideful, rebellious mankind (Isaiah 2:12). The horrors of that time are presented most clearly in Zephaniah 1:2-18, wherein Zephaniah 1:15 reveals that it “is a day of wrath…” From the time
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In June of this year, we “celebrated” Pride Month, which includes Pride Day, in which man’s opposition to God’s purpose for and rule over His creation and particularly His design and order for human flourishing and our individual happiness in Him, is openly flaunted with apparent impunity and the approval of much of our God-ignoring