CHRIST the BANNER: “There shall be a Root of Jesse, who shall stand as a banner (or rallying point) to the people; for the Gentiles shall seek Him, and His resting place shall be glorious” (Isa 11:10). When Paul Freed began to broadcast the gospel from Morocco into Spain in 1954, who would know that […]
“When leaders lead in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless the Lord!” (Jdg 5:2). After the sweeping heaven-given victory against the far superior forces of Sisera, Deborah and Barak sang a duet, beginning with this line. Without being political, let me say, this is what we need in the world today: leaders who […]
“What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mt 16:26). While this is almost always applied to the lost, it was spoken by the Lord to His own. To turn it around, since your soul has been rescued by God’s Champion, what will you give Him in gratitude for such heavenly heroism? Here’s […]
“Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit” (Ps 51:12). If Eliphaz had only been right in his premise—“Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquity without end?” (Job 22:5)—the words of Job 22 would have been an excellent step-by-step recovery program for a fallen saint. He was wrong, of […]
Read More… from September 17, 2025 — The Path Of Restoration
JESUS the MEEK ONE: “Learn from Me, for I am meek…” (Mt 11:29). Meekness is not weakness, but strength in control. How do we learn meekness? We first must be ready to “receive with meekness the engrafted word” (Jas 1:21), submitting our lives to its truth. We can bear “the fruit of the Spirit” which […]
“Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me” (Ps 19:13). Presumptuous sins! These are sins committed not through weakness or the enemy’s stealth, but from our own deliberate action. They are sins that we engage in against our own best judgment and in spite of the light of […]
Leonard Sheldrake reminds us that “No work is more noble or fraught with more blessed possibilities than sowing the seeds of the gospel.” What to sow? “The sower sows the word” (Mk 4:14). When should we sow? “In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do […]
Job raises a warning to his friends that we all need to heed—the danger of judgmental shortsightedness. Because a man is rich or poor on the outside, does this reflect his status before God? Does this man “say to God, ‘Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. Who is the […]
Read More… from September 16, 2025 — A Deep Dive Into Shallow Thoughts
CHRIST the GRAIN of WHEAT: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain” (Jn 12:24). Who can tell how one faithful witness can bring in a bumper crop? And who ever heard of John Warr? He had been apprenticed to Clarke […]