• Timely Reflections

    While They Were Sleeping…

      Admittedly, it has been quite a while since I posted anything new of real substance here—the last two such items being Smoke and Mirrors in July 2020, and A Line and a Net in January 2021. In the former, given at the height of the pandemic and in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the ensuing riots, I warned the Church not to be misled by those events, as they were simply diversionary tactics of the devil designed to foster more division and strife in both the nation and the Church, disrupt the 2020 elections and usher in the globalists’ agenda, while camouflaging just how far Satan’s kingdom…

  • Timely Reflections

    A Pause and a Cause for Worship

    In light of the revival that has taken place at Asbury University over the past couple of weeks, I thought it might be edifying to repost what I wrote about worship nearly ten years ago in a post entitled A Pause and a Cause for Worship.  Here it is… After each of our visits, I like to take a little time to ponder what we have been talking about so that I can try to decide where we should go in our next discussion.   As a goal-oriented person, I usually have a very good idea of where that is and just how to go about getting there; but, as is…

  • Seasonal Posts

    A New Year’s Day Blessing…

    As this most welcome of New Years begins to open up before us, it is my prayer that this will prove to be a year of healing, hope, and blessing for us all.  And to help us usher it in properly, here is a blessing from Psalm 67 of God’s Word… God be merciful to us and bless us, ​​And cause His face to shine upon us, That Your way may be known on earth, ​​Your salvation among all nations. ​ Let the peoples praise You, O God; ​​Let all the peoples praise You. Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy! ​​For You shall judge the people righteously,…

  • Timely Reflections

    A Line and a Net

      Some weeks ago, while listening to a prophetic word concerning this past November’s highly contested presidential election, two words were dropped into my spirit.  The first of these was line, followed a few minutes later by the word net.  When I heard “line,” I was immediately reminded of what I had written last summer in my post Smoke and Mirrors.  There, I had warned believers not to be taken in or deceived by the pandemic and the race riots which were then taking place, because they were merely diversionary tactics of the devil, designed… To create a line of division between believers—to prevent them from forming a solid voting…

  • 3-Bible Story Posts, Act 1, Scene 2--the Betrothal

    Abraham: Called to Wrestle

    Thus far—in our study of the life of Abraham, we have watched as God called this man out of a life of affluence and comfort to a life of wandering, worship, witness, warfare, and waiting—with each calling being accompanied by a new or expanded revelation of God’s plans for Abraham, and followed by a period during which Abraham’s stewardship of that revelation was tested.  In most instances, his success rate was much like those that we experience in our own walks of faith—more often than not, a case of one step forward and two steps backward.  However, there have been some exceptions to this pattern—such as in Genesis 14 when Abraham…