“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?” (Proverb 1:22a)

In this verse, David does something interesting. He identifies a personal quality (“simplicity” – silliness, foolishness, being EASILY SEDUCIBLE [presumably by satan’s lies]) but,...

To set the tone for what we are about to read, let’s get the context of how Paul first said it. He and Barnabas are in Asia Minor in a place known as Antioch in Pisidia, attending synagogue on the Sabbath. They are invited to speak any encouraging an...

Every morning I post a short “Proverbs Devotional” on my FaceBook feed. I recommend that we all read the “Proverb of the Day” each morning – by which I mean that on whatever day of the month it is, read that chapter in the Book of Proverbs. It’s a sh...

There was a moment when one of the first two humans was fooled into believing that something from the earth (fruit forbidden by God) was “good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise”. She was fooled into bel...

I have come to realize that Christianity has developed its own language and its own culture. This might seem to be a good thing because we are called to be different from the world; however, I’m not sure it really is a good thing.

“If you were of the...

The woman who wrote this shall remain anonymous (but, not to God.) She is courageous, full of faith in God, capable and, really is a Mighty Warrior in Christ. She is not anonymous to me, either, as she has blessed me by allowing me to minister healin...

My definition of “ministry” here has to do with “the movement of something from God to a person who has need of that something.”
Usually the fourth column presents itself first. This one has to do with “Man’s Impossible Need”.

I call it “impossible”...

Imagine you were to build a house. Hopefully, you would first think it out. Then you would set a foundation and erect the building. When you were done you would have an empty building with rooms or chambers inside. Next, you would fill those rooms.

“T...

His name was not Dan, but for the sake of confidentiality it will be for this article.

Dan was barely 55 years old and he had been sick for the previous 5 years. Just before I met him he had come to the realization that he would die soon, the conseque...

I am helping to write an epistle. It’s called the Epistle of Mike.

The word “epistle” means “a written message” and is often found in the form of a letter. Sometimes an epistle is identified in terms of the person who wrote it as in the epistles of Ja...