Truth and Fables

  2 Peter 1:16-18 “I want them to be able to choose”, the Son said across the table of yellow glass. “Then they will fail”, breathed the Father “The dark will seem like light to them”, He continued “And they will turn to...

Suffering with Christ

1 Peter 3:13-22   When we look around and compare ourselves to what others have we might feel like we have been short-handed.  The suffering we feel, and experience on earth is a result of this fallen world.  Yet, Christ never says that as Christians we...

Birds of a Feather

“Finally, all of you be of one mind” 1 Peter 3:8           So there is this phrase; “birds of feather flock together”.  It’s true.  You won’t see an eagle with a bunch of chickens.  As Christians we are called to fly above the flightless birds and live a...

Set Apart

1 Peter 1:13-16 “Be holy, for I am holy” Holy in applicable terms means to be set apart.  Hebrews 10:13 describes our lives as Christians to that of a stranger to this world.  A stranger- to be so unfamiliar to what the world has to offer.   Holiness is...

A Verse to Start the Month

  Psalm 108:1 “O God, my heart is steadfast”   Quick character study:  David was a man who most people looked over because his potential was not seen by them.  His dad considered him the least of his sons in every meaning of the word.  Yet, the Lord looked at his...

Set Your Sails

Proverbs 31: 1-9           With the last chapter of a book of wisdom a warning is given.  But it’s more than a warning; it is an exhortation or a strong encouragement.  It is an exhortation to a higher calling- a challenge to those that can rise above mediocrity.  It...

A Name So High

Proverbs 30    “What is His name, and what is His Son’s name” “There is a generation that curses its father…there is a generation that is pure in its eyes…”                     The Son stood by the Father seated on the throne.  The Holy Spirit ascended the glass...

Mirrors

Proverbs 27:19 “As in water face reflects face, so a man’s heart reveals the man”             Ah, poetry.  “AHH! Truth!!”.  Our hearts truly reflect who we really are.  That evil thought that flashes in our minds.  Those violent visions we get.  Our premeditated...

Leftovers

Proverbs 26:11 “As a dog returns to his vomit”           It’s a disgusting site to see a dog eat its own vomit.  It is just as disgusting to Christ to see us commit the same   sin.  There is no reasonable explanation as to why dogs will go back to their own vomit,...

Known

Psalm 106:40-48 This part of the psalm gives us a peek into the character of the children of Israel.  Now before we criticize how flaky they were with Christ, and how disobedient and self-seeking they were- we have to look at ourselves.  Israel is a great depiction of...