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“They don’t know how to cry,” I heard the Spirit whisper. Some of God’s people don’t know how to cry. Maybe that was one of the problems with the Laodicean church. (Revelation 3:14-22) Maybe a preoccupation with material wealth had quenched the Spirit which would have moved them to tears had they recognized their spiritually [...]

“I come to the garden alone….” This hallowed hymn always strums an emotional chord deep within me. It beckons me to that place of sweet delight with the Lover of my soul. “And the joy we share, as we tarry there, none other can ever know.” It is there that we enter the Holy of [...]

INTRODUCTION When I was a baby Christian, a Bible teacher was inquiring which books we would like to study. I chimed in, “Isaiah!” His comment, however, was in the negative, saying it was a lot of dry history and judgments. That was certainly not my take on the prophet. Even as young in the Lord as I [...]

“The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”   Jeremiah 31:40 Some people think that all the Old Testament prophecies have been fulfilled already.   Certainly, enough of them have been that we can be assured that God’s word is true.  But there remain numerous prophecies to be ultimately fulfilled regarding Jerusalem, the City of Peace.   [...]

How our Father loves to bestow good gifts on His children!  (Matt 7:11; James 1:17)  Psalm 37 is a psalm of inheritance.  Notice how many times the word is mentioned.  This Psalm ties in with one of my other favorite Scriptures that promises us that for His chosen, God “works all things together for our [...]

My precious granddaughter’s name is “Hephzibah”. It’s a beautiful name but it isn’t simple and it isn’t convenient. When people first hear it, they want it re-pronounced, spelt, and explained. But the meaning is lovely: “my delight is in her”. Would every child know that their parents delight in them! God placed this name in [...]

Some who revere the Beatles might think it sacrilegious to change their lyrics, lovely as they are. But their  melancholic lyrics  don’t resonate truth for me.  There is no “shadow hanging over me.”  Since Christ changed me and my “yesterday”and  since He is now “working all things together for my good”  (Romans 8:28) and  turning [...]

Christ “speaks and list’ning to His voice, new life the dead receive”!  “Hear Him, ye deaf!” Who are these “dead” that Charles Wesley refers to in his hymn “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”?  These dead are sinners! The concept of death is separation.   God is life.  Separate from Him, you are spiritually dead.  [...]

We confess this frequently at my church:  “Christ has died. Christ is risen.  Christ will come again.”   These are foundational Christian beliefs.  Do you believe Christ is coming again?   Many,many  Scriptures reference the Lord’s Coming.  Some of these just reference the “Day” or the “Revelation” but are included to show how foundational the Second Coming [...]

“….but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”  Romans 8:15 How different is true Christianity from man-made religions!  We have a heavenly Father! I’m reading Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, a best-selling novel for about a century.  The story is set in Rome about AD 54-68.   Christianity [...]

It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last, but this morning, I messed up. However, since God works all things for my good (Romans 8:28), I learned a few lessons from my mistake. It was a beautiful, cool, September morning. I decided to be outdoors and get a little pruning in on [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard the cliché “the oldest lie in the book” referring sometimes to “the check’s in the mail” but “the oldest lie in the book” is literally in the Book of Beginnings, the book of Genesis. It is spoken by the “father of lies”, satan. Satan’s opening line, posed as a question (Gen 3:1), [...]

I got to speak today at a funeral for an 8-month old baby boy that was the son of a friend in the young adult ministry here at Hill Country. He was born with health problems and he spent a lot of time in the hospital in his life. Today I was thinking about how [...]

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. (Lamentations 2:19) LET THE CHILDREN There is a sinister, ugly spirit, a [...]

Tory got me a bouquet of roses today for no reason….and it was really nice! I appreciate random flowers much more than flowers on valentine’s day or something (though there’s nothing wrong with that too!), so that was really cool that he got me some!!! AND he got me roses, which I love! I like them [...]

Galatians 6:1 — Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual shoud restore him gently. Just a quick note on restoring… We should rebuke our brothers and sisters who are caught up in a sin. In our rebuking, though, we should restore. That means we are to strengthen, perfect, complete, and to [...]