His Words Are Our Words

Before we come to repentance and are busy with all this life offers, the born again experience is misunderstood by the world for it is spiritually discerned. The world around us stays the same as we are transformed by the holy spirit (1 Corinthians 2:11-14) For what man knoweth the things of a man, save…

The Body Keeps a Gospel

The preacher said— “One day we’ll all be together again…” and the women in the second pew held each other like shipwreck survivors clinging to wet lumber. But I been reading the Book at 3 AM with burnt coffee breath and thunder sitting low in my chest like bad weather, and I can’t find many…

The Power of Longsuffering in a Short-Tempered World

From: A Beyond Tomorrow E-mail The first step of longsuffering is to exercise restraint and do nothing. We must think first! What does God want me to say or do? The Power of Longsuffering in a Short-Tempered World Note: Scripture Links are from me to the Worthy Bible with Strongs site. Longsuffering, though rarely used today, is…

The Strong Tower of God’s Hebrew Name

There are seasons when the battlefield of the mind feels relentless. Thoughts rise like storm winds, swirling through our grey matter with a force that seems beyond our control. Scripture is clear that such mental assaults are not imagined; they are part of the enemy’s strategy. “The devil…walks about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he…

What is Faith?

Is Faith a Gift or a Reliance? From one essay I recently read came the following: “Ephesians 2:8 – for by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; – Grace means salvation comes through Faith which is an unmeritorious gift that is not inherently part of natural man; a…