“You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13, ESV) In life, we all seek a lot of things but do we seek the most important things. And if we do, with what intensity do we seek them. I have to confess, that at times, too manContinue reading “Proper Seeking”
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A Leader’s Motivation
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages, who says, ‘I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,’ who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and paintingContinue reading “A Leader’s Motivation”
Tears Unto Harvest
“ Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the Lord has spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness. But if you will not listen, myContinue reading “Tears Unto Harvest”
Ruined Undies
“Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. . . Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loinclothContinue reading “Ruined Undies”
The Children Cry Out – Part 2
“For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sonsContinue reading “The Children Cry Out – Part 2”
Mourning Over the Lost
“And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips. “‘Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord hasContinue reading “Mourning Over the Lost”
Never Forget
“Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?” (Jeremiah 2:4–5, KJV) Memory loss is aContinue reading “Never Forget”
Blessing of Concern
“I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity.” (Philippians 4:10, ESV) I have not kept it a secret that I am currently amid a battle with cancer. While the battle is real and I knowContinue reading “Blessing of Concern”
A Lovely Servant
“Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. For indeed he was sick nighContinue reading “A Lovely Servant”
Longing for Reunion
“Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.” (Philippians 2:23–24, KJV) When I served in the United States Army, I was stationed in Germany. My tour there was to be forContinue reading “Longing for Reunion”
Renewing the Heart 