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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
A Touch of Heaven on Earth
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
His Glory and Our Good
"We live for God wherever we are, knowing He has put us there."
The Lord doesn't need our permission to act. You may have noticed that He doesn't ask for it, either.
God brings about whatever is, and He often does so through means of nature's laws (like gravity) and/or man's actions (like electing a President). There are times, of course, when the Lord acts supernaturally, bypassing what we deem to be ordinary, but, by definition, those times are extraordinary. They don't happen often. Rather, we see the day-in, day-out sovereign hand of God through the commonly experienced activities of life.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Prayer: Following Jesus' Example
"We prioritize prayer in this life as we live for the next."
It's an amazing verse: "He often withdrew to deserted places and prayed," (Luke 5:16, CSB).
Some may explain this reality of Jesus' life by considering the pressures He had to face as He possessed (and still possesses) true humanity. Consider the verse before that states He was being hounded by "large crowds" for counsel and healing. Moses's "morning 'til evening" judgments caused him to quickly wear thin (Exodus 18:13ff) -- but he was only dealing with fellow Israelites and did not have a ministry of healing. Jesus was constantly pestered by Jews and Gentiles alike, being expected to care for each one in the fulness of His power. No wonder He often withdrew to the desolate places to pray.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Bible-Reading: Works or Grace?
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Delivering the News
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Praising God Wherever You Are
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Time Is Love
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Free Resource to Reach Latter-day Saints
I recently published a new gospel tract designed to reach Latter-day Saints (Mormons) with the message that we cannot exalt ourselves. The same righteousness that is obtained by faith for salvation is effective to comprehensively exalt the believer. The title of the tract is, "Will You Be Exalted?" and the fulness of the content is found below.
You can download the PDF and print/cut/staple the booklets yourself. Just make sure to print two-sided--you'll see how it works. May God bless your efforts to reach people with the good news!
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
The Inexhaustible Word
"We study the Bible because it is the whole counsel of God."
How strange is it that the Christian spends his life reading the same book over and over? The books we own are largely one-and-done experiences (if you ever even make it to "one," that is), but this isn't the case with the Bible. We continue to read it, study it, meditate upon it, and share it with others as though we'll never finish it -- even when we have read it through many times.
God's revelation possesses the amazing quality of inexhaustibility. It's simply impossible for any of us to comprehensively glean everything from the Bible. There are experts on Shakespeare, who essentially know everything there is to know about the man and his work. The same goes for Homer, Twain, and Dr. Seuss. But that kind of expert will never exist with Scripture. The kind of mastery that may exist over a fellow creature's corpus could never exist over the Creator's corpus.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Unlocking Heaven
"We proclaim the gospel to the world so that they may be saved."
If you've ever been locked out of a place you were desperately needing to get into (especially if it was urgent), you know how frustrating it can be not to have the key to get in. Many of the doors in our lives have but one key each and we keep them in a special place, knowing that it's in our best interest not to lose them. When you're seeking to unlock that old shed, your everyday house key won't do. You need the key with the perfect fit.
Yet we know that locks can be picked. As our church's resident locksmith knows, where there's a will, there's a way. Especially considering today's use of electronic locks, it is possible to hack your way past any locked barrier if you have the right amount of knowledge and skill.
Not so with heaven.