I recently decided to read and meditate on the Book of Haggai, and I was immediately confronted with God’s concern about the House of God that it lay in ruins while the people were living in their lavish houses. Remember with much of the Old Testament we must pass it through the Cross and apply New Covenant truths and principles to it. Haggai writes in […]

I love the Apostle Peter’s introductory greeting to the scattered believers in his first epistle. 1 Peter 1:1-5 Amp. N.T. PETER, AN apostle (a special messenger) of Jesus Christ, [writing] to the elect exiles of the dispersion scattered (sowed) abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,Who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father and consecrated (sanctified, made holy) by the Spirit to be […]

I have used a statement in previous blogs, “LET THE WORD WORK“I heard someone say it in passing conversation (nearly 20 years ago), but it rang a chord in my heart, and I have never forgotten it. These last couple of years it has become a daily prayer that the Word would work in my personal life more and more, There is no doubt that […]

Some of my readers will have at least heard the name if not know something of Count Zinzendorf (1700-1760) who was a Bishop in the Moravian Church. It has been said that after a difficult problem he was involved in, he coined a phrase which I full endorse. ON THE ESSENTIALS- UNITY, ON THE NON-ESSENTIALS -LIBERTY, IN ALL THINGS CHARITY/LOVE. In reality there are few […]

Throughout Church History, there have been people and especially Preachers who have taken verses out of context, or simply misinterpreted what the Word of God says, and therefore taken truth to extremes, and at times into complete heresy. Sadly, because many Believers are not really Biblically literate they accept the extreme teaching and can often end up in disillusionment, then the others who disagree often […]