There is no better illustration of fallen man’s condition and fate than the humble cicada. For those who do not know Christ, what is living, after all, except years of dwelling in the muck and mire of the earth—then you die. Except that in this, even the lowly cicada enjoys an advantage over the lost. …
July Reflections
More than just a reassuring comfort, His presence actually describes God to us. He has left His fingerprint on everything about us—not just so that we would know that He is there, but that we might come to understand who is there. It is God’s nature, His personality, His very essence that is there for …
June Reflections
An Excerpt: By the mysteries of the mind, the nearer I draw to Father God, the more everything else surrounding Him fades away, until at last, in the heady intimacy of His presence, it is just my God and me. My purpose is not to examine Him or to converse with Him. I am there …
May Reflections
An Excerpt: When the Godhead created man in its own image, it went far beyond a similarity of appearance. God experienced His life through His senses, and so He crafted man to experience life by the same means. More than that, He designed man to commune with his Maker through those same senses. PDF suitable …
April Reflections
An Excerpt: I couldn’t resolve the two. Here before me was the sublime home of my faith, the root of my heritage. Here Israel met with her God. Here—and only here—we sacrificed and paid homage to Him. All of this was conducted according to His precise instruction; it was He who created the method and …
March Reflections
An Excerpt: After the long and often drab months of winter, spring is the time of newness, and explosive growth, when living things change from one day to the next as quickly as a young child changes in the eyes of a doting auntie. Last year’s acorns littering the land sprout and take root, on …
February Reflections
An Excerpt: Just as extremities lose feeling in the bitter winter, we who must deal with the bitter world suffer a diminishing of the senses. But the Spirit can revive those senses, broadening their scope to embrace even things unseen, the things of the spirit, and the things of an unseen God. This is a …
January Reflections
An Excerpt: Light illumines. It shows the way, it heals the melancholy spirit, it brightens the outlook. Light is a positive and powerful force. But light also reveals. Bright sunlight cheers a dark room, but also shows the layer of dust that coats a table, exposes the cobwebs draped in the corner where walls meet …
December Reflections
An excerpt: Pensively the boy began, “At first I thought it was just my cold, and the candlelight inside the sanctuary. Something was different—but I didn’t know what. Then, at the end of the service, we sang a familiar hymn. It’s the chorus I remember—that’s when I knew that something inside me had changed.”“What was …
November Reflections Published
An excerpt: There can be days—if not every day—when even believers justified in Christ can feel too soiled by their ever-present flesh and surroundings to approach a holy God. We dwell in a fallen world, and, over time, we can permit it to get too close. Our God is longsuffering, but He hates hypocrisy and …