How Much Is Your Soul Worth? “Look, does it make sense to truly become successful, but then to hand over your very soul? What is your soul really worth?” (Matthew 16:26, The Voice) There is a website which gives you a quiz to play to determine a value for your soul in “soul dollars.” It claims that Satan will place a value on your soul based on answers to a set of fifteen questions. He does a very good job of... Read more
The Sin of Manipulation “Herod had arrested John, put him in chains, and sent him to prison to placate Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. John had provoked Herod by naming his relationship with Herodias “adultery.”” (Matthew 14:3–4, The Message) I imagine the conversation went like this: John: Why are you with Herodias, don’t you know that she is another man’s wife? Herod: You are right, but she is so beautiful and… John: She’s not yours to have. Herod: But... Read more
Musical Promoters of God “After the death of Aaron’s two sons—they died when they came before God with strange fire—God spoke to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter into the Holy of Holies, barging inside the curtain that’s before the Atonement-Cover on the Chest whenever he feels like it, lest he die, because I am present in the Cloud over the Atonement-Cover.” (Leviticus 16:1–2, The Message) Sometimes I wonder why people don’t take the worship of God... Read more
Walk Lovewards “And this is love: that we walk according to His commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.” (2 John 6, HCSB) What does it mean to walk in love? To put it another way, what does it mean to walk “lovewards”? I can walk forward and backward. I can walk sidewards (or sidestep). I can climb upwards and downwards. I can walk in many different directions, depending... Read more
Let Go and Serve God “God said to Moses in Midian: “Go. Return to Egypt. All the men who wanted to kill you are dead.” So Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey for the return trip to Egypt. He had a firm grip on the staff of God.” (Exodus 4:19–20, The Message) In the previous chapter, God appeared to Moses in a bush, which was burning, but never consumed. God appeared to Moses and called him to lead... Read more
Soaked in Holiness “Make atonement for the Altar and consecrate it for seven days; the Altar will become soaked in holiness—anyone who so much as touches the Altar will become holy.” (Exodus 29:37, The Message) “Getting soaked” is a term we use to mean that someone is wet. They get drenched in water completely from head to toe. As a result, they are full of whatever made them wet. If they were dunked in a dunking booth, then they... Read more
What Is It? “When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” because they didn’t know what it was. Moses told them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.” (Exodus 16:15, HCSB) The Hebrew word man-hu, literally means “What is it?” This is the name the people of Israel gave the bread which God provided on their way out of Egypt in the desert. This “bread” is strange indeed. It would only appear... Read more
Satan Acts Like a Prowling Internet Robot “Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil.” (Ephesians 6:11, HCSB) I have noticed on my statistics to this blog a couple of referral blogs with names like: vampirestat, villianstat, adsensewatchdog, zombiestat, and uglystat. These websites (which I will not link on this page, nor will I share the full website), are spam bot websites. They form false visitors to your website. They... Read more
Jesus the Time Traveler Jesus the Time Traveler is a simple thought reflection from Psalm 110:1 about the way in which Jesus had a pre-existence, or in essence traveled in time to the past. “This is the declaration of the Lord to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool.”” (Psalm 110:1, HCSB) Jesus is also Master of Time. Jesus is the ultimate Time Traveler. In a question and answer session with the religious... Read more
Jesus the Great Pharmacist Jesus the Great Pharmacist is a simple thought reflection from Isaiah 9:6 about the way that Jesus, like a pharmacist, can prescribe the best healing medicine. “For a child will be born for us, a son will be given to us, and the government will be on His shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6, HCSB) In his book, Christ as Pharmacist (Christus als Apotheke in... Read more
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