Jacob’s leader will be one of them;his ruler will issue from him.I will invite him to me, and he will approach me,for who would otherwise risk his life to approach me?This is the Lord’s declaration. (Jeremiah 30:21, CSB)Listen for God's promises in the midst of challenges, and depend on Him! We know about God's plans for us (29:11-14), and, here, we begin to understand the depth of the blessing. O...  Read More

"Preach the Word" (2 Timothy 4:2). When Hananiah confronted Jeremiah rather dramatically (Jeremiah 28), declaring Jeremiah's prophecy false, he thought he was opposing a human being. What he learned was terminal...to challenge the messenger in his delivery was to challenge the Message Giver. The One Who has the last word is the One Who is the Word and has spoken the Word. The world is full of Hana...  Read More

Was Paul describing this moment in history 2000 years ago? "For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,  unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,  traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of godliness but d...  Read More

"The Word of God is not enchained" (2 Timothy 2:9b)There is an arrogant attempt in our culture to rewrite history, redefine culture, and re-appropriate words to suit the agenda of the same. Do I sound like a conspiracy theorist? I am in this sense. Ever since the serpent deceived Adam and Eve, he has been on a path to destroy all that God made good, and his most effective tool is the lie (twisted ...  Read More

"I recall your sincere faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and now, I am convinced, is in you also." (2 Timothy 1:5, CSB)I love it when the Bible names people. This faith is real, it is personal, it affects persons and applies to the same, and real people evidence how living God's way invites God's blessing. From Acts, we know that Timothy's father was Greek. ...  Read More

Day 300...seems as though it should be a milestone on our journey. Let's make it one of worship and reflection!"In His own perfect time, He will come—blessed is the only Sovereign, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. He alone possesses immortality; He makes His home in matchless, blinding, brilliant light that no one can approach—no mortal has ever even seen Him, and no human can. So let it ...  Read More