SPECK VERSES BEAM It was Jesus that cautioned us not to look for a speck in another's eye while one had a beam in his own (Mt.7: 3-5; Lk.6: 41-42). Whenever we point a finger at some one, there are...
April 2008 Archives
LIBERTY WITHOUT TRUTH Thousands were told by the Pope that freedom without truth could not survive. How then do so many believe that without freedom truth would not exist? According to the founder of Christianity it is the truth that...
BALANCING NATURE Our grand daughter is being taught that nature balances itself. I have no faith in nature, in nothing or even in Darwin. We have ivy that clime trees and choke them. We have spiders that can kill. It...
ANSWERED PRAYER We were elated the other day when one of our most important prayers was answered. God does tune in on the prayers of faith and trust in Him (Ja.1: 6-8). It was not an instant answer. It took...
LOT'S LESSONS It was and still is one of the profoundest lessons on sin that begets sin and the wages of sin is death (Ro. 06: 23a). Lot represents those among us that elect to follow the easy and glamorous...
MODERN FASCISM It is unfortunate that we have a tendency to assign words like “fascism” to the Nazis or some dictator. “Fascism” has and can function with or without a dictator. It can be the policy of a Supreme Court,...
DECEITFUL HEART Jeremiah 17: 9 complained: “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” How often have we prayed that God would change our or someone else's heart? Who can fix a deceitful...
LIBERAL The word “liberal” once meant: “being compassionate, generous and kind.” At least that is how the word was used in Christian teaching. Then the Communists and the Socialist came and they were very liberal with the holdings and...
TWO EDGED SWORD The Sword in the Bible is the hand of judgment and the Word is The Lord God or The Lord Jesus Christ (Rev.1: 16; 02: 12,16; Eph.6: 17; Heb.4: 12). More about the Word: In...
BLOOP POLITICS Many years ago, scouts helped us cleaning a yard. Rain delayed the project over cookies and hot chocolate drinks. One of the talkative lads gave his analysis of a modern politician. He told it with gusto and...
