Sep 22, 2011
Being proud is like willingly jumping on a conveyer belt headed to a dumpster shoot out of a high rise construction project in Manhattan. The descent is sharp and the landing is rough. This is what the writer of Proverbs had in mind when he said "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit ... Read more
Jul 30, 2011
Right now, I'm reading a guy called David. He wrote a bunch of songs. Twenty times he tells us we should "shout for joy"Can we simply dismiss these imperatives as something Jewish believers in a different part of the world at a different time in history used to do? Read more
Jul 26, 2011
Perhaps no sin grieved the repentant heart of Peter more than his three shot rapid fire denial of Jesus. The sorrow was no doubt intensified by remembering that his Savior had warned him about what he was going to do before it even happened. Three truths are very encouraging. Read more
Jun 30, 2011
In order to have any hope for Heaven or any possession of peace here there are two bodies of "liquid" into which we must fall. Both are essential for salvation but one MUST precede the other. The first is a kind of miry bog, a muddy, swamp-like, lowland marsh. Getting out of it is discouraging and ... Read more
Jun 30, 2011
If we have fallen into the miry bog of true repentance, feeling and hating the horror of our sinfulness before God, we should quickly plunge ourselves into another body of "liquid". It is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins. The one "opened for the house of David...to cleanse ... Read more
