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The Know it All, Hands-On God

Psalm 139-1You have searched me, Lord, and you KNOW me.  2 You KNOW when I sit and when I rise;   you PERCEIVE my thoughts from afar. 3 You DISCERN my going out and my lying down;   you are FAMILIAR with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, KNOW it...

Fatherhood Lessons from Noah

In Genesis chapter 6 God observed the wickedness of the human race.  His assessment wasn’t an exaggeration.  Humanity had gone amuck.  Things were horrible.  When He made the call to wipe out the human race, except for one family, with a worldwide flood, it was...

Our Part in Pentecost

As I read the account of Pentecost from Acts 1 and 2, while no one could take credit for the powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the miraculous ability to speak in languages that people hadn’t learned, and the 3000 souls that were saved except God Himself, I find...

A Culture of Encouragement

Encouragement is so powerful.  The New Testament reveals that encouragement was a regular part of the early church’s life together.  I’m not talking about a culture of mere compliments like, “Nice toga,” or “Cute sandals,” or “Where did you get your beautiful head...

Disciple or Drifter?

Hebrews 2:1- We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. I don’t think that most people who drift from the faith mean to.  I don’t believe they purpose to.  If they are people of faith, people who really have...

Pleasing God

In Genesis 5:21-24, we are not that Enoch didn’t die, but that “he was no more, because God took him away.”  He was and then he was not because he was transmitted to the presence of God.  The text says two times that Enoch walked faithfully with God. It is...