Amazing Grace (Lessons From Joshua)
(Joshua 2:1-24 Written as if the spy who went into Jericho and later married Rahab were saying this.) It’s interesting to ask people how they met their mate. Everyone …
Living For Jesus (Lessons From Joshua)
(Joshua 1:10-18; 3:1 – 5:2 Written as if the first priest to step into the Jordan River carrying the ark were saying this.) “Swing low, sweet chariot, coming fo’ …
Fasting, How to Do It?
Did you know that there is more in the Bible about fasting than repentance and confession? Jesus taught more about fasting that He did about baptism or the observance of …
Fasting, What Does It Accomplish?
In a culture where the landscape is dotted with shrines to the Golden Arches and an assortment of Pizza Temples, fasting seems out of place and out of step with …
Fasting, Why Do It? 2
We’ve been looking at reasons for fasting – when we should get the fasting tool out of our spiritual tool box and put it to use. Last blog talked about …
Fasting, Why Do It? 1
Many years ago we went camping at a gospel concert. I wanted to put up a tarp over the door of our VW pop-up camper. I had the tarp, poles, …
Fasting: What is It?
This will be a fast blog. That doesn’t mean it will be short, but that it is about fasting. I know this isn’t the most popular subject around today, but …
USE THE WORD OF GOD
Knowing and using God’s Word, the sword of the Spirit, is key for victory in our daily struggles (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 77:12; I Chronicles 28:9; Matthew 22:37-38; I Corinthians …
SPIRITUAL WARFARE IN REVELATION
The final book in the Bible, Revelation, written by John 6 years after 1 John, has much to say about spiritual warfare as might be expected. In it the …
SPIRITUAL WARFARE LESSONS FROM HEBREWS, JUDE & JOHN
Writing 20 years after James, soon after Paul and Peter wrote their last epistles, the writer of Hebrews states that Satan holds the power of death, but that Jesus …