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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 and comforting word they might have and Paul stands to speak. His goal is to bring those in attendance to the understanding that Jesus, the Messiah, has already come. To do this, he has to take them from where they are in their comp

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 shame to let the wisdom in that book go to waste. So, this morning I posted the following verses and the thoughts I sensed the Lord would have me share on them: "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be gla

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 believing that God and what He provided was not enough. So, “she took of its fruit and ate.” (Genesis 3:6) She took something in from outside herself and wasted what was already DEEP inside her (the Holy Spirit of God.) Soon after th

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 world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (John 15:19) Indeed, Paul wrote to the Philippians and told us that “our citizenship is