A few months ago, I was slightly irritated by a song that seemed to me to be of no value in my walk with the LORD. I heard it, sung it in times of fellowship and worship, and yet was untouched by it. Was I even singing to the LORD, or just joining in as [...]
This is how one of my favorite professors, who also chaired my thesis committee, ended class time almost every day. Trite words? No, brethren, for we are at war. Sometimes we numb ourselves enough to forget, or we become so earthly minded that we lose site of reality. You and I need people in our [...]
I’ve been pondering a word I read in Titus 2:3 recently, “reverent.” In this culture, in this present day, do I and my peers know what it means to be reverent, do we care, and is it a part of our Christianity–or do we consider it outdated? Older women are told to be reverent in [...]
Confession involves so much more than saying what I have done wrong in thought or deed. Confession must include confessing who the LORD is, even in this low point of life, or while life feels full and abundant. 2 Corinthians 9:13 invites us to think about what we have confessed, is it the veracity of [...]
Self that is…”self” gets in the way of every moment of every day unless that nasty old creature is laid at the cross. It hit me when sitting next to a colleague I had never met before. This colleague was shocked that the guest speaker at a meeting was not the man anyone expected to [...]
My masters thesis looked into a time in church history when the church let Scripture a n d other sources define her life for her. These “other” sources were contrary to Scripture, but many Christians did not know this. Why? Did they read their Bibles? Did they look into it only once, on Sundays, while [...]