Writings

Sometimes we short sell God due to our own broken frame and limited thinking.  Paul uses an uncommon word to describe Jesus’ work and deportment: surety. (Hebrews 7:22) This not-oft used word describes the rich beauty of the work of Christ in a way that underpins the vastness of its depth.  With a proper understanding […]

Too often times, we find ourselves perpetually living in the past or the future for the wrong reasons.  We live in the past with regret, bitterness, and strife, and we live in the future with worry, fear, and anxiety.  The Psalmist describes God as a present help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1) While He is a […]

When I was a boy listening to preaching from Sunday to Sunday or at big meetings, I would hear preachers use words like “eternal,” “timely,” “position,” and “condition.”  Most of the time, they were highlighting what a specific verse’s frame of reference was.  They would call it an eternal or timely text and discuss whether […]

There are a pair of contrasting statements made by Jesus and Paul where we’re told we can do “nothing” and we can do “all things.” (John 15:5, Philippians 4:13) Both of these statements are hinged on the Person of Jesus Christ, because “nothing” happens without Him and “all things” happen because of His presence and […]

Sometimes during our experiences, we have interactions that bring things vividly into focus and help re-align our thinking to a more correct viewpoint.  Today I visited with a man while we both waited at the tire shop.  During the course of our conversation, he shared with me that he had lost his wife of 39 […]

Paul declares that all of God’s promises are in Him yea and amen to the glory of God. (II Corinthians 1:20) To understand the full extent of this declarative statement, we must consider the ramification of “yea” and “amen.”  Both words are strong affirmations of confirmation that can mean: verily, truly, surely, and so be […]