A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil.  For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.  Luke 6:45 The New Living Translation says:  “Whatever is in your heart determines what you say.” It is a curious thing how someone can learn something, live it and then fall away from it.  I have been recently reminded by the Lord of a...

“I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist.  Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”  Isaiah 44:22 The Hebrew meaning of the word “redeem” as used in this verse is ga’al and it means:  to act as a kinsman or redeemer to redeem (by payment) God redeeming from death, from bondage, from exile to exact vengeance  Isn’t it great news that when we return to Him in repentance, God not only sweeps away our sins but...

One of the keys to being ready to change can be found in the parable of the prodigal son.  If you remember the story, a very wealthy man had two sons.  The younger son asked for his inheritance, took it, left home and squandered it all on lascivious living.  He ended up working for a pig farmer and found himself living in a pigsty eating slop.  Talk about being in need of a change, eh? When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, at...

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.  Joel 2:25  God recently gave me a lesson, once again, through my little dachshunds, Elsie and Hugo.  It’s funny how He speaks to me using the goofy wiener dogs to get His message across!  I’ve been praying and standing in faith for many years that God will bring much needed...

When I used to teach the business accounting and tax classes at the SBA’s Small Business Development Center, I would open every class with an exercise.  I would ask everyone in the class to get out their wallets and tell them to open them up and show me their money.  The looks I got from the students were strange, as you can imagine! Sadly, there were usually only one or two in the class who had their money in neat and clean order.  The...

If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  Romans 10:9  For most people, becoming a Christian is very easy in the sense that they hear the promise of God for salvation and they believe it and they act on it as if it is true.  What about the multitudes of promises beyond salvation?  If we really and truly believed, and acted upon, them, shouldn’t we all...