Thoughts By Men

2025-06-04

Call out to God

“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3

2025-06-03

Is It Time for a Maintenance Check Up?

Just as regular maintenance keeps machines working, regular spiritual self-assessments would keep you aware of “loose bolts”.

2025-06-02

WINDMILLS

Since boyhood, I had heard the story of the little boy who put his finger in the hole in the dike surrounding Holland. The windmills pump out the water that otherwise would flood the fields.

2025-06-01

Let God Interpret the Facts

Have you ever done the very thing God told you to do and then ended up in what seemed like a worse situation?

2025-05-31

God Accomplishes What Concerns You

God assumes responsibility for accomplishing what concerns you in times of trouble. Your job is to believe that the Lord will fulfill His purpose,

2025-05-30

Book of Life

I am to be whom God has made me: fragile, fallible and dependent on Him in the mess and muck of life but not sucked in by it.

2025-05-29

Unfolding Your Words

Sometimes the right path is not so difficult to find, we just need to know where to begin our search

2025-05-28

Broken Glass

I have noticed broken glass on the tarmac where I ride my bike. I guess it is from broken fizzy drink bottles, or wine and beer glasses all of which have been discarded by revelers.

2025-05-27

Gardening with a Two Year Old

The fact that God invites us to join him in his work is because he delights in the relationship with us and knows we will be satisfied in that partnership with him.

2025-05-26

Love Needs no Because

The love of God needs no because. He does not give his love because of something that you’ve done.

2025-05-25

Just a Little Bit Dead

There is no such thing as a little sin. Sin is sin, and the wages of sin is death,

2025-05-24

Fix Your Eyes on the Future

In the future, the soul will be made perfect, and fit to partake in the inheritance promised to God’s saints.

2025-05-23

Just Being Nice

Our Father in heaven wants us to be images of his Son — because there is no limit to the kindness Jesus has shown each of us. How then can we put an arbitrary limit on kindness when it comes to others?

2025-05-22

Our Safety Net

LATELY, I’VE BEEN THINKING MORE ABOUT THE SECURITY OF MY FAMILY. During uncertain times, my need for extra security rises.

2025-05-21

God’s Timing is Not Ours

God's timing is not ours: "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." (1 Peter 3:8)

2025-05-20

How Dearly God Loves Us

I was awakened from a deep sleep. I knew that God had something to say to me. I felt impressed to get up...

2025-05-19

The Despair of Self

There is no real conversion from the life of sin until wea realize that our whole nature must be parted with

2025-05-18

Which Side ARE YOU?

Jesus calls on us to make a decision. He draws a solid line in our spiritual following.

2025-05-17

Seeking the Source of Sound Wisdom

Do you ever reflect on the wrong decisions you’ve made? I do. In retrospect, I re-evaluate....

2025-05-16

Moving Too Quickly

“What if Christ left me in my sins, which is what I fully deserve? What if there was no grace, no mercy, no redemption?”

2025-05-15

Yes, Lord, Yes!

I suspect that God is just as frustrated with me when I say “yes” to Him and then don't do what He wants me to do.

2025-05-14

Watch Out for Shifting Sand

In today’s consumer crazed culture, Christian communicators and commentators saturate the marketplace with various media to meet believers’ appetite for spiritual insight and clarity.

2025-05-13

Addicted to Sharing the Gospel

Last night we enjoyed supper and an evening of fellowship with friends. One of our friends said, with a big happy smile, that she was...

2025-05-12

Hiding among the Trees

Question: What sort of sins do we often try to hide from God? "If we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong." (1 John 1:9)

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