To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is! Proverbs 15:23 Every once in a while, it’s just fun to see how paraphrases interpret a scripture. So let’s see what The Message (MSG), The Voice (V), and The Passage Translation (TPT) say about Proverbs […]

Something to Work On… And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” Mark 1:40-41 Anybody who spends time with me knows that I’m […]

Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 2 Samuel 7:22 King David is praying. He is extolling the greatness of YaHWeH and that there is no other. But more importantly, David’s entire […]

Time to refill the GRACE tank. It struck like a thunderbolt, and I was left dumbfounded, literally speechless. Did I hear it correctly? Did someone say that another someone of a different political persuasion “deserves a bullet in the head?” Thank God this person is not from the congregation I serve! I hope and pray […]

I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior. I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God. Isaiah 43:11-12 God, speaking through the prophet, is quite definitive to the people about the Divine Identity. […]

Godzilla vs. Hitchhiker Last week, I sat down to write a bLOG for today. I began it and erased, started another and erased, attempted a third and erased it too. It seemed that Godzilla kept creeping into every one of the now-discarded bLOGs. Hitchhiker was getting frustrated until it occurred to me that I was […]

“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” Mathew 5:11-12 I have a confession to make; I have trouble rejoicing […]