I read an article about how confused women are today regarding when to marry versus exploiting their single youth. This article contains a hidden premise that women decide their own destiny and "find a man" and succumb to, "the desire hardwired into all straight men to turn their girlfriends into 1950s housewives." The article described a… Continue reading Liberal Women on Women
Author: steve2525
I have been involved in a lot of church work my whole life, but I consider Yeshua to be everything and the hidden life in Him. I was part of the Jesus movement revival of the early 1970's and I have a heart for Israel.
Distinguishing the Law
Everyone is different in many ways physically, genetically, and environmentally. Nevertheless, law applies to everyone equally and the statue representing justice is blindfolded to illustrate this principle. There is to be no favoritism with respect to the law. However, there has been a consistent erosion of this foundation of liberty, freedom, and justice. Today, arguments… Continue reading Distinguishing the Law
Your Life
I was finishing a letter to a believer in difficult circumstances, and I began to get a glimpse of God's perspective of her. She is ordinary like most of us, filled with uncertainty and weak in terms of ability to achieve any significance in society. In fact, society considers her a nobody. However, she was… Continue reading Your Life
The Middle Class
In the days of America's greatness there was a common notion that supported, comforted, inspired and unified the population. The notion of "the middle class" was a poorly defined title for working people and families who lived all across the nation in urban, suburban, and rural areas and shared this distinction that was open to… Continue reading The Middle Class
Yeshua’s Speech
Why do people find Yeshua's words and speech difficult to understand? For us two thousand years later, one could say it is because of differences in time, language, and custom, but that doesn't explain it. The events, stories, and dialog within the narrative is understandable in its context. No, what tends to puzzle those who… Continue reading Yeshua’s Speech
Doomed to Repetition
We are all alike, there is no man who has been any better than another; all our distinctions are meaningless attempts to establish a figment of independence. All religions were created by men trying to be accepted by God, but these are futile. Even God's own law given to Moses was insufficient because men are… Continue reading Doomed to Repetition
Hurricane Prayer
Matthew 21:22 reminds us that if we ask believing we will receive whatever we ask. This, of course, assumes we are asking through the leading of the Holy Spirit in accordance with God's will but God is able to answer any prayer. Further, He is sovereign over all including storms (Mark 4:39). In thinking about… Continue reading Hurricane Prayer
Faith With Effect
She had been sick for twelve years, but she believed that touching Yeshua's garment would bring healing. "Jesus turned and saw her. 'Take heart, daughter,' he said, 'your faith has healed you.' And the woman was healed at that moment." (Matt. 9: 20-22). A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that… Continue reading Faith With Effect
National Catastrophe
I'm hearing a lot about potential catastrophic events that seem imminent and serious. First, I heard sometime ago that our entire water, food, financial, communication, and energy infrastructure could be permanently disabled by a cyber attack or an EMP, (electro magnetic pulse). It is estimated that this catastrophe would result in the death of 90% of… Continue reading National Catastrophe
Behind The Curtain
I woke up this morning like most other days thinking about things. After a while, I set aside all thinking and chose to listen through the Spirit, rather than think. The doorway to Spirit listening was the truth that God is in control of everything that concerns me. Put another way, everything I was thinking… Continue reading Behind The Curtain
Ask and Receive
My daughter's six year old, Carley, came in saying that some bug bit her on the shoulder. Her two year old sister watches everything her older sisters do. So, when I asked Carley to come with me to put some ointment on the bite, her sister marched right behind her. After I rubbed a little… Continue reading Ask and Receive
The 5:17 to Paris
We watched an outstanding movie entitled "The 5:17 to Paris." You might recall the three young Americans who thwarted a terrorist massacre on a train in France. This is their story and even includes the actual men portraying themselves. Movies based on true events seem to be those we enjoy most - the saying, "truth… Continue reading The 5:17 to Paris
Whom God Regards
We Americans are independent and big thinkers. The concept of equality inspires the individual to believe anyone can be great. We tell our children that they can grow up to be President. We encourage them to think big and become all they can be. We may admonish them to work and study hard. However, do… Continue reading Whom God Regards
The Unseen World
What if there were things around us that we cannot see, yet bear heavily upon our lives? What if we were not the masters of our own fate, as it so often seems? Is there a spiritual realm that consists of more than mythology, ghost stories, and fantasy? Are we aware of the spiritual warfare… Continue reading The Unseen World
The Miraculous Hinderance
I listened to a famous profligate denouncing Christianity to a Believer. His audience eagerly urged him on as he ridiculed religion, but most specifically Christianity. His accusations were made as unquestionable fact and his condescending air portrayed a pride for reason and contempt for faith. He stated that all evil was rooted in religion, offering… Continue reading The Miraculous Hinderance
Why Join a Church
Many believers ask this question. They do so because they see no benefit or reason in it. There are reasons for work and for play, for attending weddings and funerals, even for going to church on certain religious holidays, but joining a church seems to make very little sense to many in our day. Does… Continue reading Why Join a Church
Perspective
A bird has a sense of equilibrium in their head that enables the bird to maintain its head in a fixed position irrespective of the bird's body, wings, tail and feet. This is necessary as the bird flies by moving and positioning it's wings and tail separately. We are made to travel with feet fixed… Continue reading Perspective
Liberty
Liberty is that state of freedom in which a person may harness his destiny in God's providence or wreck himself upon the rocks of self-centerness. It was Yeshua who bought freedom for Mankind by His shed blood on the cross. "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do… Continue reading Liberty
Your God
One after another young women scream, "Oh my God," when they see their redesigned house on the various house "fixer up" TV shows. It's likely just an expression without any real meaning, but it points to a portrayal of God that is becoming more common place on TV, an Idol god. Pagans in Bible times… Continue reading Your God
A View of the Heart
But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things we do. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." (1 Samuel 16: 7). People consider what they can see on the outside,… Continue reading A View of the Heart
Awe and Fear
They were leaders in the church and community, from respected families, married to prominent people, doctors and leaders themselves in the church, but they were committed to fraud. They found a place secluded, hidden and were having adulterous homosexual sex. Months later after everything had been settled, resignations accepted, families wrecked in divorce, reputations ruined,… Continue reading Awe and Fear
Spiritual Exercise
I was waiting on the waffle iron to get hot, as I was waiting on my wife to get up, while waiting one hour before eating, after taking my medication. It was a perfect time to meditate on the Lord, so I began with His attributes: love, abundance, faithfulness, mercy, justice, wisdom and knowledge. My… Continue reading Spiritual Exercise
The Value of Instruction
Someone in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." Yeshua replied, 'Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.' " (Luke 11: 27-28). The Angel told Mary, Yeshua's mother, she was blessed, but hearing and obeying the word of God is… Continue reading The Value of Instruction
Not So Sweet Dreams
I woke up exhausted this morning, not because I didn't get enough sleep or was awakened during the night, but by the dream I had. It was a very detailed story of business and investment in a flower growing venture. Everyone I knew was in this business and had gathered considerable wealth as a consequence.… Continue reading Not So Sweet Dreams
Yeshua Before Creation
God was complete and in union with His one and only Son before creation. The Holy Spirit as well, Genesis records "The Spirit moved over the waters". But let's consider the Messiah now, particularly given the incarnation, meaning God becoming man in the flesh. This inquiry started as I read, "in the hope of eternal… Continue reading Yeshua Before Creation
