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October 13, 2010


Last Saturday, Patty and I literally stopped what we were doing to watch the TV news. NBC was showing footage of an incredible North Korean military parade. The troops marched with unbelievable precision. As an old Marine, I was impressed. Then came the tanks, missiles, missile launchers-an awesome display of military power.

Then there was the eye-popping celebration in Pyongyang's...

Coming to Jesus



Come to Me . . . —Matthew 11:28


Isn’t it humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things about which we will not come to Jesus Christ. If you want to know how real you are, test yourself by these words— “Come to Me . . . .” In every dimension in which you are not real, you will argue or evade the issue altogether rather than come; you will go through sorrow rather than come; and you will do anything rather than...

The Nature of Reconciliation


Oct 07 2010


He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him —2 Corinthians 5:21


Sin is a fundamental relationship— it is not wrong doing, but wrong being— it is deliberate and determined independence from God. The Christian faith bases everything on the extreme, self-confident nature of sin. Other faiths deal with sins— the Bible alone deals with sin. The first...

The Nature of Degeneration



Oct 05 2010


Just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned . . . —Romans 5:12


The Bible does not say that God punished the human race for one man’s sin, but that the nature of sin, namely, my claim to my right to myself, entered into the human race through one man. But it also says that another Man took upon Himself the sin of...

. . . do you love Me? . . . Tend My sheep —John 21:16

Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him. We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. “If anyone comes to...