Peter and his nets

I've recently gained new insight from a Bible story I've written about before on Sheepfood (Peter and The Leper) and thought I'd write about it. Have you ever fooled yourself into believing you were being obedient when, in fact, in your heart you were rebellious? I think it probably happens more often than we realize. …

This is the day

I've been thinking about the Sunday School song, "This is the day." It's a simple little song which goes, "This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made, that the Lord has made. We will rejoice. We will rejoice and be glad in it and be glad in it ...." When …

The Importance of Prophecy

I thought I had heard it all when it came to teachings on "the rapture." For those who might not be aware, the term comes from the Latin word, "raptura," which means, "to be caught up." It is found in the Latin translation of the New Testament in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 which in English says, "Then …

Suffering for Sin

I recently posted an article about God's judgment (see it here). In that article I discussed in general a form of God's judgment on a world that rejects Him. He sometimes withdraws in judgment, allowing us to destroy ourselves. A troubling thing about this is when those faithful to God suffer alongside those responsible for bringing …

Standards of Measure

I feel sorry for the multitudes of religious folks out there. I really do. Take for example those Ephesian worshippers of “the great goddess Diana, and the image that fell down from Jupiter” (Acts 19:35). You can almost see the genesis of their religious dogma. Imagine a people who had already been worshipping the goddess …

I will draw all men

There are times when, in our zeal to get out and share the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, we neglect the very best “method” at our disposal. There are books in the stores which develop strategies for engaging people in conversation, for targeting or leading them through pointed questions, for how to hold their …

The Rainbow

The spring is upon us and with its sunshine and pleasant rains we are often treated to a special heavenly spectacle: the rainbow. Personally, I enjoy thinking about the science behind such natural phenomena as the rainbow. It's so interesting how all those tiny raindrops act like a prism and the sunlight shines through and gets dispersed into all …

The Lord in the Wilderness (part 2)

Click here for The Lord in the Wilderness (part 1) In part 1 of this article it was discussed that the Lord's temptation in the wilderness was not a test to see whether or not he would succumb to the devil, but rather, it was to demonstrate to us that He wouldn't. In part 2, …

Amelia Mary

Meet Amelia Mary: This is my daughter. She's been alive for approximately 22 weeks at the time this ultrasound image was captured (4/24/2012). Isn't she beautiful? I'm quite sure she's smiling at me, too. She is my eighth child. My first two children are with the Lord and my seventh child is with the Lord. Amelia is …

The Lord in the Wilderness (part 1)

Matthew 4:1-11 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to Him, he said, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be …