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I am a 60 year old devout conservative Christian. I worked 31 years as a tax professional and recently retired. I became a Christian at age six and have been studying the Bible my entire life. I am editor of this blog and started it to present a defense of the traditional conservative Biblical worldview.

• Thanksgiving Day

  By Larry Foster on November 28, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.  I Chronicles 16:34. In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.  I Thessalonians 5:18. And we know that all… Read More ›

• A Future Without Condemnation

  By Larry Foster on November 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.  Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.” I John 3:20-21. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those… Read More ›

• Taking Thoughts Captive

  By Larry Foster on October 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Do not copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.  Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing… Read More ›

• Rescuing The Gospel

  By Larry Foster on October 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Rescuing The Gospel” by Erwin Lutzer is a book about the Reformation.  Lutzer was the senior pastor of Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years until retiring in 2016.  The book focuses on Martin Luther who 500 years ago nailed… Read More ›

• Press On

  By Larry Foster on September 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.  Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended;… Read More ›

• Holding God’s Hand

  By Larry Foster on September 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” I John 1:5. “Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I… Read More ›

• The Wisdom Drawn from Above

  By Larry Foster on August 9, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, ‘Ask!  What shall I give you?’ ” I Kings 3:5. Shortly after Solomon was made King God appeared to him and asked him what he… Read More ›

• Love From a Pure Heart

  By Larry Foster on July 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they… Read More ›

• To Be Remembered

  By Larry Foster on July 16, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  “Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, ‘If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.’   But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, ‘Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?… Read More ›

• The Lord of the Rings

  By Larry Foster on July 8, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  When I was 16 years old a friend encouraged me to read a book he had just finished “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien.  He described it as being about Hobbits, Wizards, Elves, Dwarves, Dragons and Fiery Mountains… Read More ›

• Walking in the Spirit

  By Larry Foster on June 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you… Read More ›

• Casting the First Stone

  By Larry Foster on June 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, ‘He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.’ ” John 8:7. Several years ago a commercial ran for a… Read More ›

• Obedience vs. Rebellion

  By Larry Foster on June 10, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them.  But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.  But Saul and the people spared Agag… Read More ›

• Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed

  By Larry Foster on June 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “So the Lord said, ‘If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you.’ ” Luke 17:6. “So… Read More ›

• Bitter Waters

  By Larry Foster on May 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Mara, for they were bitter.”  Exodus 15:23. “But she said to them, ‘Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly… Read More ›

• Our New Name

  By Larry Foster on May 16, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat.  And I will give him a white stone, and on the… Read More ›

• The Highway of Holiness

  By Larry Foster on May 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “A highway shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.  The unclean shall not pass over it but it shall be for others.  Whoever walks the road, although a fool, shall not go… Read More ›

• Promises to Israel – Their Land Will Blossom

  By Larry Foster on April 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ ” Ezekiel 36:35. God promised Israel that with the re-establishment of the… Read More ›

• From One Racist to Another

  By Larry Foster on April 21, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  For 18 years the New York Yankees have been playing Kate Smith’s version of “God Bless America” during the seventh inning stretch.  They have recently banned the song due to her singing some purported racially insensitive songs 80 years ago…. Read More ›

• The Death of a Christian

  By Larry Foster on April 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.” Romans… Read More ›

• Promises to Israel – Their Irrevocable Call

  By Larry Foster on April 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for… Read More ›

• The Promised Land

  By Larry Foster on March 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou,… Read More ›

• The Sacrifice of Fools

  By Larry Foster on March 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.  Be not be rash with thy mouth, and… Read More ›

• Rediscovering God’s Word

  By Larry Foster on March 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  America today is arguably a post-christian society with unrestricted abortion, homosexual marriage, rules requiring a person to address another person as whatever gender they deem themselves regardless of their biology and traditional christian values of all kinds under attack.  Even in… Read More ›

• Hero of the Heartland

  By Larry Foster on February 25, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Hero of the Heartland by Robert Martin is a biography of evangelist Billy Sunday.  Sunday was a fundamentalist evangelist whose sermons concentrated on personal salvation and individual morality.  He was the most influential revivalist in the United States between 1896 and 1935.  He had… Read More ›