Impulse to Empire

The great goal, the great focus, the great value that supersedes all others is not the economy, stupid. It’s love, brother and sister. The beast says it’s the economy, stupid. But the Kingdom of Christ is Love one another, little children. But if we get sucked into that kind of philosophy that everything has to go […]

Mark of the Beast

In the book of Revelation, chapter 2, speaking to the church in Pergamum, Jesus says I will give him a new name. But then in Revelation 13, which talks all about the beast, we are told it (the beast) calls us all to be marked with a number… Here’s the message I am getting at, to be […]

Foolish

But…cultivate a life of beauty. That is the goal. I’m running around trying to be someone I’m not, trying to win some prize, some approval. But, What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? I’m losing the real me. Seriously, What could you ever trade your soul for? So, I’m […]

Garbage Dumps to Gardens

That’s what Jesus is as the gardener. That is what we are to be as his living body in the world, a river flowing, getting deeper and wider, eventually spreading the life abundant to the whole world. In our wake should be green meadows filled with renewed life, not a barren desert we can call […]

MLK

Posted this last year, worth sharing again… “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak […]

The Great Hope of the World

The kingdom of the world has now become the Kingdom of our Lord and His King, Christ. God has acted within history to set His king on the throne forever, amen. This is the gospel they preached. This is what they went about announcing…. But in Thessalonica, the Christians are called For those making the […]

Follow the Lamb

God is patient. 750 years go by after Isaiah was singing his song about a Prince of Peace, about Zebulun and Naphtali, about the land of Gentiles in Galilee seeing a Great Light. Seven and a half centuries roll by, and we come to Matthew chapter 4. “Now when he heard that John had been […]

The People in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light

Actually sent this out yesterday, but realized hours later that my upload was scrambled and what I posted was not what I envisioned. Here is the correct post, and I am sorry for those who may have tried to read what I sent yesterday. Anyhow, here is my post, hoping to get another out later […]

The Greatest Conqueror

Continuing my advent look at what we mean when we call Jesus king, because we sing all of our Christmas Carols about this newborn king. The newborn whom we would ultimately call King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. But, the question is, what do we mean when we call Jesus king? Beginning with 2 […]

A Coronation

The only war on Christmas was when Herod tried to kill Jesus, and that failed, so we can just relax. We don’t have to worry about a war on Christmas. Jesus survives the War on Christmas, he’s taken to Egypt by Mary and Joseph, comes back to Nazareth and is raised, and when he […]