PURE RELIGION
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27 (NIV) The word oxymoron implies a contradiction in terms which combines two...
SPIRITUAL SYCOPHANCY
“These people draw near Me with their mouths and honour Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far away from Me. Uselessly do they worship Me, for they teach as doctrines the commands of men.” Matt 15:8 (Amplified) The writer of Proverbs 30:8-9 said...
HOLY OR STRANGE FIRE?
“And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.” Leviticus 10:1 (KJV) 1 Peter 2:9 is to my knowledge one of the most often...
ALTAR-PHILIC OR PHOBIC?
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.” Romans 12:1 (NIV) A commentator who was alluding to the scripture passage above once remarked that...
SEARCHER OR WALKER?
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 1 John 1:7 (NIV) (Amplified) It was Karl Marx, the political thinker, who said ‘Religion is the opiate of the people.’...
THE SPIRITUAL LAW OF PRODUCTIVITY
“I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest.” Jn 12:24 (Amplified) In...
THE INDIAN SUMMER
“And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night, and said, Jacob! Jacob! And he said, Here am I. And He said, I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will there make of you a great nation.” Gen 46:2-3 (Amplified) The relationship...
BECOMING GOD’S CHANGE AGENT
“For He Who motivated and fitted Peter and worked effectively through him for the mission to the circumcised motivated and fitted me and worked through me also for [the mission to] the Gentiles.” Gal 2:8 (Amplified) So, what is the best way to stir a hornets’ nest of...
SEASONS OF CHANGE
“And the voice came to him a second time, What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, do not you defile and profane by regarding and calling common and unhallo-wed or unclean.” Acts 10:15 (Amplified) God may be constant, but His plans for mankind are constantly...
GOD’S GLORY IS PARAMOUNT
“And he arose at once and picked up the sleeping pad or mat and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and recognised and praised and thanked God, saying, We have never seen anything like this before!” Mark 2:12 (Amplified) The supreme object of faith...
