Posts from March 2025

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Phil 1:2) Simon, Simon, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat. (Lk 22:31) How strikingly different are the intentions behind these statements. How diametrically opposed are their wills toward us. One seeks to kill, steal, and destroy. The other comes to give life…

The case of the defective lights. Recently I purchased some work lights like those pictured to the right. They were from an online discounter of products made in another country. I had to wait some 4 weeks for them to arrive. But I had been lured by the great price. When they finally did arrive, guess what! They didn’t work. So I put them on the charger. Not even the…

To fit him for the kingdom, God changed Saul’s heart (1 Sam 10:9). Why would God need to change his heart? Simply put, because the condition of Saul’s heart—just like every other human’s heart—was very grave. “The heart is deceitful; it is desperately sick,” says God. (Jer 17:9) Our hearts are hard (Ps 95:8), unclean, and defiled (Mt 15:19-20). So God did a wonderful…