An Open Grave

A fish in beautiful array, a lion with its flowing mane, a classy leopard with its spotted coat … These all have something in common: they are beautiful to look at – until they open their mouth. How quickly their demeanor can turn fierce and even become deadly. How...

Should We Be Scared?

A question was recently posed to me: Does “fear the Lord” mean we are to be scared of Him?  Deuteronomy 6:13 says to fear the Lord your God and serve Him only. Psalm 19:9 says the fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. Psalm 34:7 says the angel of the Lord...

Well, I Declare!

When we declare something, we are making something known. I hear this word thrown around (not necessarily in a good way) as I listen to examples of false teachers and warnings against them.  So how is the word really used in the Bible. What does God mean? “You...

Oops!

Have you ever pruned plants, built a shelf, put parts on a car, and “Oops”? That wasn’t the branch you wanted to trim, the shelf isn’t level, or there’s a leftover bolt on the ground. Oops: a word we never want to hear God say. And He doesn’t!  He doesn’t make a...

PSALM 42

Watching someone in complete despair, listening to them share their unrest, fears, cries of woe and anguish, and not be able to do anything but hold them, is one of the hardest things to deal with – at least for me. In Psalm 42, the Psalmist is writing during a time...

Recipe for Disaster

I expect many of us have been there at one time: we’re following a new recipe, or a manual for putting together a piece of furniture. We get to the end and realize we missed reading something in the instructions and suddenly our final product is not what it should be....