“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 […]
“Lord, teach us to pray” (Lk 11:1). Every prayer is a mission seeking a miracle. But before we receive divine permission — for all answered prayer must be according to His purpose — there is our personal admission: “I can’t do it myself; I need the Lord’s help.” Then follows submission, when we turn from […]
“And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to Myself. This He said, signifying by what death He would die…“A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is […]
Jesus called the people to notice the image on their coins’ obverse, and then see the image on them! I was just a boy when I was introduced to the word “obverse.” My grandfather explained that the side of the coin I called “heads” was actually the obverse. Growing up in Canada, that meant the coin […]
Read More… from September 15, 2025 — The Image On Coins & Souls