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Test me, Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind. Psalm 26:2 The psalmist asks God to test and try him, knowing that it is possible that he might be deceiving himself. It is a prayer that God would help David become known to himself. By faith he is trusting in the loving kindness of…

Though we are born sinners we are being made saints who are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Therefore, Jude 3 says, contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints” based on the finished work of Christ. We are saved by grace, nothing added.  The apostle…

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.2 Timothy 4:3-4 The Apostle Paul wrote these words to young Timothy in 68AD, the year…

There is a saying that we are all human and we shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves. The tragedy is that our sin is our problem and we fail to realize how pervasive it is. It has perverted our sense of reality to the extent that we think we can do something about it. Paul…

There has always been and will always be well-meaning church members that will balk at the idea of the free gift of salvation.  Such a gift requires something in return, does it not?   There was a group in the early Christian church called the “Judaizers,” who thought that way. “Judaizers” is a Greek word…

We are a people who have come to believe that we not only can gain access to anything, but we have a right to everything.  This has produced an anxious people, especially the young. Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation  describes the result—a people that believe they can be many places at once as…

I can actually remember reading by lamplight, doing my thing in an outdoor toilet; there were no telephones, experiences my greatgrandchildren can’t even imagine. The iPhone came in 2007. In all too many cases this is reality to them. I downloaded a recent interview with Dr.Groothuis regarding his book The Soul in Cyberspace, written back…

As a boy of eight during the Second World War, I was affected by the evil that the Nazi’s inflicted on their enemies. Even to this day some eighty years later, truths are being revealed about that time. Alex Kershaw published a book entitled Avenue of Spies, August 4, 2015. It is about an American…

In an age such as ours it is easy to get distracted by the effect of the noises around us. Telling the story of Jesus depends on the ability of the teller “to bind the ‘ears of the heart’ to the words of higher heavenly truth” as one writer says. In an age like ours,…

C. S. Lewis wrote in Time and Beyond Time that there are things that exist beyond time that apply to each one of us. However, it was in the 20th century that philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, questioned the existence of God. His father was a German Lutheran preacher who died when Nietzsche was four.…