Do you remember the scientific Law of Entropy? Rather than evolve or improve upwards, things tend to gradually decline into disorder. This verse gives us the Law of Spiritual Entropy. The closer we get to the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, there will be a regression, a gradual worsening of…
God has many obscure followers. One day in heaven we will be privileged to meet them. Sure there are the notable ones we discover in our Bibles or in history. But there must be hundreds of thousands that few have heard of. They never built an ark or wrote a book or preached to…
Do you have a wish list? Maybe your family is like ours. In the hunt for gift ideas, we love to collect hints that drop throughout the year. You know, Mum finds a new dessert she likes for an occasional splurge, or a sister’s pair of shoes have come to the end of their usefulness. The…
Today’s Scripture passage corrects two modern myths. When hearing a warning about professing Christians who are in error, occasionally someone will say, ‘I know they don’t believe or live like you do, but they ARE Christians, so just get along.’ First, it may be that they are fellow-believers. Then again, that…
You’ve seen it before. ‘Men. You just can’t figure them out!’ Accompanied with the roll of eyes and a knowing look, two women might express their frustration at not being able to grasp why men do what they do. Or two fellows might say something similar about females. Taxpayers doubt the wisdom of our…
As Epaphras prayed for his church family, there was one request the Apostle Paul heard him make repeatedly. What was that request? ‘Lord, take away their pains and heal all their ailments’? No, that wasn’t his prayer request. ‘Lord, make them prosperous, happy and…
Joy is not the result of good news, a happy mood, feeling great, or being on ‘easy street.’ Joy is found in being rightly related to the Lord. When the kids are sick, the pain is intense, a relationship is shattered, or the…
When Paul desired someone to make a dangerous journey to Philippi, he couldn’t find volunteers who were willing to deny themselves life’s comforts. But there was one man. Timothy was exceptional. While most of us seek our own things, Timothys seek the things of Jesus Christ. It is natural to seek…
Words have great power. The Lord says death and life are in the power of the tongue. Many is the person who has been driven to great extremes because of something that was said. Here our Lord says that Christians who have put on the new man harness…
The Apostle Paul says, in effect, ‘I’m NOT some great Christian preacher.’ We’d probably all disagree with him there. If there was a ‘Who’s Who’ of celebrity Christians, surely Paul would headline it. He says, ‘The reality is, I’m the LEAST of all saints. Don’t think…
Last weekend at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, on the second to last lap, Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez collided, crashing into the wall at high speed. They had both made a good start. An hour and a half of spectacular racing had put them both within reach of the podium. But on the 50th lap, in a…
The law of Moses has a profound effect in Israel today. On a recent trip there we saw the restrictions that observant Jews still live under. We watched as a kosher diet was strictly observed. On the sabbath, elevator buttons were disabled so that one would not be guilty of lighting a fire on the sabbath. The light rail did not operate. A public piano was placed…
