What is the hardest thing that God may ask his servant, his prophet, to do?  I have been looking at Elijah.  He was the prophet that God sent to confront the kingdom of Israel, the wicked King Ahab, and his very wicked wife, Jezebel.  The story is found in 1st Kings 18, 19. It is taken up again in 2nd Kings 1 and 2.

The Good Samaritan and “Whose Life Matters?”

Luke 10:25-37

We are currently witnessing and even participating in a debate (to put it mildly) as to whose life matters.

 I Resent

The word “resent” means to feel bitter or indignant at a person, circumstance, or something that has happened.

We all have things that we resent!

This article is a result of my resenting the divisiveness that fills America right now. Instead of loving each other in disagreement; or rather learning to disagree graciously, we hate and divide. I have experienced it in my family, community, and church.

It’s a Heart Problem

Jeremiah 17:9

Focusing on issues rather than the heart is to deceive yourself: it is to fail to love God and to love your neighbor.

Racism, Left and Right politics, Abortion; There are so many issues to get passionate about.

Living your faith in front of your children is not hiding your weak humanity from them, nor is it flaunting your weak humanity. it is letting your children see you take your weak, flawed humanity to God and trusting him with it.

God is More Concerned About Changing Hearts Than He is About Solving the World’s Problems (present tense)

With all the trouble in the world today, it would be easy to ask, “Why is God not doing anything about it? Why is he not solving the world’s problem’s now?

As I was reading Psalm 92:4-6 it became obvious that God is working. His work makes us glad (when we take the time to look at things from his perspective).

POLITICS AND MONEY

Immaturity in God’s Disciples.

John 21:18

This is one of my favorite Bible verses.  It encourages me to keep on going when things get dark and hard and tedious. Psalm 27:12 says "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living."

Eyes that can see God's goodness when it is so very dark (the valley of the shadow of death) are eyes that have consistently sought God's face when it was not so dark. See Psalm 27:8 "When thou saidst , seek ye my face; My hearts said unto thee, thy face, O LORD, will I seek."

PERSPECTIVES: It all depends upon which side of the road you stand.

Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

Two people can be standing on the same road, watching the same event take place at the same location on that road. The one may see things from the Right side and the other may see things from the Left side.  It all depends upon which side of the road you are standing.