Jun 29, 2023 | Wednesday
According to IRMI, a risk management company which works with industrial insurance companies, about 100 years ago, 80% of the US population was involved in some aspect of farming. Today, it is 2%. And today, the average farm size is 434 acres, but 55% of all US farms...
Jun 15, 2023 | Wednesday
I make no apology for bringing another lesson from the battle between David and Goliath. There is so much to learn from this event, and I continue to see new things in it. For this lesson, I’m going to assume that you are familiar with the basics. Let’s briefly...
Jun 8, 2023 | Wednesday
I briefly shared this scripture with the men last Saturday morning, but I didn’t develop it very far. It hadn’t developed in my heart very far. But the Spirit has kept it on my mind, and now I hope there might be a blessing in it for all of us. For those of you who...
Jun 1, 2023 | Wednesday
Generally speaking, we can’t go wrong if we make David one of our Biblical examples. Of course, the man was a sinner, and especially while standing in God’s spotlight, we see his flaws and sins. But twice in God’s Word we are told that he was a man after the Lord’s...
May 25, 2023 | Wednesday
We are told in the inscription of this Psalm that this is one of the “Songs of Degrees.” The meaning of that phrase is a mystery, but there are several possibilities. One opinion is that with each of these fifteen special psalms there is a slight rise in spiritual...
May 18, 2023 | Wednesday
I have been using this particular Bible for decades. I may have had it even before I moved here in 1990. As I’ve told you before it is a Thompson Chain edition of our old King James. I don’t know anything about Mr. Thompson, but I would guess that he was a fundamental...
May 11, 2023 | Wednesday
Three times in this Psalm, God’s penman uses the word “selah.” That word is found 77 times in the Bible, with all of them in the Psalms except for twice in Habakkuk. Only once is it ever used other than at the end of a verse, and most of the time it marks the end of a...
May 4, 2023 | Wednesday
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that the Judgment Seat of Christ has come up twice in my personal reading. Since then, I have been thinking quite a bit about the Lord’s judgment of the Christian. For example, things I have taught and other books and lessons on...
Apr 27, 2023 | Wednesday
When Paul stood before Festus and Agrippa, he shared with them his testimony of salvation and his commission to minister the gospel of Christ. Keeping in mind a message Austin preached recently, while you notice that Jesus said he was calling Paul, ”To open people’s...
Apr 20, 2023 | Wednesday
We have a tool at our house that my wife and I call our “grabber.” This three foot long instrument has two rubber-coated claws on one end. On the other end there is a handle with a triggering mechanism to close those claws around various objects. We use it to grab...
Apr 13, 2023 | Wednesday
Israel’s King Solomon took the materials prepared by his father, David, and built a magnificent temple in which to worship and serve God. When it was completed, he also had a temporary ten foot high pulpit set up in the temple courtyard. II Chronicles 6:13 says, that...
Mar 23, 2023 | Wednesday
Picture a vast swath of land – about the size of the Oregon, Washington and Idaho. For two years there hasn’t been any rain and relatively little snow over the entire area. Crops have failed. Wild fires have swept through the region. Homes have been destroyed;...
Mar 16, 2023 | Wednesday
In this series of lessons I am trying to provide examples of practical faith in the Lord. And if we are talking about real life then at some point we have to include our lives at home. At the very least, we begin our day and end our day at home, and for many of us 95...
Mar 9, 2023 | Wednesday
Let’s start with a silly question: Where on the map of God is your faith? If it was required that you pinpoint its exact location on a spiritual map, where would your faith be? I don’t know if it is true in real life, but in fiction, when the authorities want to find...
Mar 2, 2023 | Wednesday
I am calling this message: “Carmelite Faith.” That word may accurately encapsulate our subject, but it might mislead a few people who know one of the special meanings of the word “Carmelite.” There is as a Roman Catholic religious order of nuns and monks who use that...
