‘Holiness unto the Lord.’ Zechariah 14:21 KJV Holiness should always be ‘unto the Lord’. Any time we make it ‘unto men’, it’s wrong and misguided because it’s just pride and pretence. Jesus condemned the Pharisees not for their acts of piety, but because they...
‘Against You, You only, have I sinned.’ Psalm 51:4 NKJV We need a new way of looking at sin; a fresh understanding of it that recognises it involves denial and moral blindness. And the only way to see it clearly is through the eyes of the One we’ve sinned against....
‘Unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone.’ John 12:24 NLT Jesus said, ‘Unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels.’ Someone has estimated that one kernel of...
‘I will strengthen you and help you.’ Isaiah 41:10 NIV We go to seminars and conferences looking for a painless cure by which our lives can be zapped and changed. We go on diets. We start exercise programs and our enthusiasm runs strong for about two weeks. Then we...
‘The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us.’ Deuteronomy 29:29 NIV When you don’t understand what’s happening in your life, start with what you know for sure; namely, that God is good all the time, and His ‘love for those who...
