Come along with me on a fabled trip to our past. It will be a journey of rediscovery, one in which old familiar sites are revisited, and witnessed as if through new eyes. Welcome on this trip, of course, are those new to faith, new to this life of sanctification through the blood of God’s …
Category: Reflections by the Pond
a monthly devotional publication
July Reflections
Every one of us is daily deluged by people and things wishing to pull us away from our Lord, and even though we acknowledge His lordship over our lives and His utter possession of everything we are and have, we can still be led astray from time to time. We can temporarily lose our focus …
June Reflections
Mere man will never grasp the true depth of human love without apprehending the staggering intensity and cosmic proportions of the joyful love expressed within the eternal Godhead. This is the rock-solid foundation that undergirds human love, human marriage, the Christian’s love for Christ, the church’s love for Christ, and, above all, Christ’s profound love …
May Reflections
The Christian’s eternal state of glorified perfection is beyond his reach in this temporal life. We are not promised it—oh, that we were!—nor is it expected of us. Only one Man in all of history was perfect during His earthly sojourn. Only He attained the pinnacle—indeed, was born perfect, and that perfection never wavered, even …
April Reflections
Perhaps we have memorialized the wrong thing. Christ’s death was indeed a sacrifice that should be remembered—but with sober reverence, not as a decorative article of jewelry. We don’t worship a dead criminal; we worship a risen Lord! We don’t remember our departed family members by hanging a miniature deathbed or auto accident about our …
March Reflections
“Give” Let’s get one thing straight right at the start: The Lord our God is and always has been utterly perfect, whole, unimprovable, lacking nothing, and immutable. Nothing mortal man does or thinks can alter Him—either for better or worse—in any way. This does not mean that God exists in sterile isolation, unsensing, unfeeling, uncaring …
February Reflections
“Painting Over Eden” Boiling down all the subtleties to the basics, individuals subscribe to one of only two philosophical positions today: one, man is essentially good, and indications to the contrary are simply aberrations; or, two, man, since Eden, is essentially depraved, and indications to the contrary only bespeak the influence of a gracious God. …
January Reflections
“The Light at the End of the Tunnel” The seven-year Tribulation, during which the church and Holy Spirit are absent from the earth, is so described. Tragically, it also accurately describes this present age. Those running the show, those in charge of today’s predominate culture seem to be always angry, always condemning others, constantly dredging …
December Reflections
“The Beginning of Forever” There is an almost cinematic feeling to this episode in which three strangers travel from a distant land to kneel before a new and foreign king. It is as if Jesus, while still in His mother’s womb, exerted some powerful force that drew the wise men to where He would be. …
November Reflections
“Dressing for the Guest of Honor” Today, instead of worshiping honestly and faithfully by means of the Holy Spirit, we demand honor and respect for ourselves, but fail to extend that same courtesy to our God. By our dress and our behavior we are to approach the Sunday worship service with one thought and purpose …