A Lot to think about
How Then Shall We Live? | Part 7: In this series of posts on the theme, “How then shall we live?” I have been addressing the current turmoil in our world its significance in light of God’s Word. We are by all indications…
Drop in the bucket
How Then Shall We Live? | Part 6: I am tempted to go into too much detail in a blog post…an occupational hazard. I taught seminary courses for years and my tendency is to add a lot of information that is true…
Worth Looking Into
How Then Shall We Live? | Part 5: For a host of reasons, during the Holidays, I took a break from posting anything on Facebook or on this blog. Previously I had been looking at the only two Epistles that…
I am not a Christian because I was raised to be one
How Then Shall We Live? | Part 4: In this series of posts, I have been asking this question posed by Francis Schaeffer over 30 years ago, “How then shall we live?” We are looking at the only two…
Inheritance of the Saints
How Then Shall We Live? | Part 3: As we continue in this series ‘How Then Shall We Live?’ Remember that the Apostle Peter is writing from Rome to a group of people in Asia Minor that will soon feel…
“Beam me up Scotty!”
How Then Shall We Live? | Part 2: Have you reached that place yet where you feel totally at a disconnect with what is developing around us? “To God’s elect… strangers in the world…
How then shall we live?
How Then Shall We Live? | Part 1: These words from the late Francis Schaeffer hold particular meaning for me as we face these rapidly deteriorating circumstances—as all that…
How We Get to Be Key People
I remembered the account of Saul of Tarsus getting knocked to the ground and blinded before God could use Him. He was given instructions to go to a man named Ananias. This man was all too aware of Saul’s reputation as a brutal persecutor of Christians. The Lord spoke to Ananias and said, “I will show him how much he (Saul) will suffer for my Name’s sake.” Throughout this whole encounter at the hardware store I kept thinking that…
Key people need to be “Buffeted”
I know that this series on Key people has been interrupted a few times and there has been an obvious irregularity to the posts. I want to tell you that the reason for the sporadic postings is a personal issue that I will briefly address. Truth be known I got discouraged.
Keys are “Cut”
We have been posting a series of articles to do with the subject Key People at the End of the Age. We began by talking about the popular view that so called ’key people’ are somehow, by virtue of their education, or pedigree or skills or innate character traits, deemed to be indispensable. Hopefully I showed why that notion is not compatible with the kingdom of God. No, a key person in the Kingdom of God…
Locked in For the Entire Process
This is part three of a series of posts I’ve titled Key People at the End of the Age. In the first article, I talked about the whole notion of being a ‘key person’ and what the Word of God says about the subject. What and who we deem to be indispensable, the Lord views in an entirely different fashion.
Next I talked about how physical keys are made and how the process begins with “presenting a blank.” If I have learned anything after almost forty years of ministry, it is that the Lord doesn’t need my advice. In fact, all I bring to the equation is weakness and sinfulness and a penchant for pride and stubbornness.
Present Yourselves
As we continue this series I’ve titled Key People at the End of the Age, a little background is in order. A number of years ago I went into the hardware store to get a key made. The man took me to where the key machine was and then he somehow morphed into “Infomercial Man”. He began to speak louder as if to draw a crowd…which he did.
