We have come to depend on words having a dedicated meaning. We count on that being true in everything we experience in life. If we order a beef burger at a restaurant, we fully expect to get a 100% beef burger. We don’t want or expect to get some … [Read more...]

Have you ever wondered what the “famine of the word” might look like? No doubt we have all dabbled in a little speculation from time to time and considered situations that might fulfill the prophesied famine of hearing the words of the Lord. It is … [Read more...]

The author of the Book of Proverbs understood life. He understood the challenge of trying to live in a godly way in a world that is not only without God’s law, but also one in which an attitude of hostility toward God’s law predominates. The Book of … [Read more...]

We live in a world that is full of knowledge. According to Buckminster Fuller, creator of the “Knowledge Doubling Curve,” until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 … [Read more...]

In Jeremiah we read: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). We like to think of this as referring to those without God. But it would be fair to say also that for those of us trying to … [Read more...]

The recently concluded Days of Unleavened Bread 2018 were “just what the doctor ordered”. They were a shot in the arm in terms of motivating us to truly consume — that is, take within our lives — the bread sent from heaven — Jesus Christ. That bread … [Read more...]

The deep meaning and import of the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread are foundational to God’s plan of salvation. The Church stands upon the foundation of Christ’s sacrifice and is built up with those the Father adds as individual member … [Read more...]

Greetings, For a while now we have been giving some attention to developing our understanding of the deeper aspects of the gospel. When the gospel is mentioned, the most common starting point for understanding it is probably the point where Christ … [Read more...]

Trip to Rwanda and Madagascar – March 2018 On March 8th my wife and I made our way to Heathrow airport in London for the short hop over to Amsterdam. As is our custom, we stayed in the Ibis Hotel that night because it is quite inexpensive and has a … [Read more...]