Finding Peace in the Sanctuary: The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of this world. Psalm 74, 75, 76 and 77, Revelation 3

Yesterday, I was feeling completely overwhelmed. I looked at a picture of children who were killed in my country, and I just didn’t have the words. On top of that, I saw a poster for a research project involving internal bodily biometrics. My mind was flooded, and I was carrying a heavy load of worries. …

Commandments of men, Defilement and being sent – Matthew 15

Matthew 15 is one of those passages. It delivers a sharp, threefold shift in perspective that challenges how we look at religious duty, our individual callings, and the sheer boundary-breaking power of faith. It forces us to confront an essential question: Are we operating from an outward posture of tradition, or an inward posture of …

The Lord Protects his own – POEM as in Esther Psalm 105

The Lord keeps His own—though I will not speak His Name aloudas queens once trembled in foreign courts,and prayers moved beneath silencelike rivers under stone. So I write thisfrom the middle of a stormwith ash at the hem of my thoughtsand weariness sitting beside melike an uninvited witness. “Wine that maketh glad the heart of …

The Robe, the Diadem, and the Spittle: How Job’s Sufferings Foreshadowed Jesus. Luke 12:2, JOB 28, 29, 30

When we look at the book of Job, chapters 29, 30, and 31. Job 28 and 29 tell us what wisdom is, and Job 30 shows us what wisdom looks like. I begin with what Jesus said in Luke 12:2: “Nothing is hidden that will not be revealed.” Job 28:11 says that the thing that …

Luke 13: 34 – 38, Matthew 23: 37 – 39 Jesus and the Religious Leaders.

Jesus, during his time with the religious leaders, had a few spats with them. By spats, I mean confrontations. However, looking at my last write-up, Matthew 23:37–39 and Luke 13:34–35 both end with Jesus saying the exact same thing to them. Sin Comparison(s) Jesus starts in Luke 13 by asking about the Galileans who were …

Repentance Is Not Self-Righteousness John 8, Matthew 23

There’s something that came to my knowledge that some people are misinterpreting people who say “don’t sin” as being self-righteous. I woke up this morning feeling fine, and this was on my heart strongly. Some people are mistaking people who say “don’t sin” to be self-righteous. But Jesus Himself said the same thing. When He …

Daniel 8, Daniel 11, Matthew 3, Matthew 4 – Vision of the Evenings and Mornings.

Daniel 10: 11 says Daniel, you who are greatly beloved…, Daniel 10: 19 Do not be afraid, you who are beloved,” he said. “Peace! Be strong now; and in Matthew 3: 17 This is my beloved Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. And I pray that you know that you are beloved …