One of the several perceived dangers of ‘retirement’ is the concern over loss of purpose in living. After all, full time work often occupies 40 or more hours per week…
His Bondservant Posts
Proverbs 25:26-‘Like a trampled spring and a polluted well, is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked’. Water is essential to our survival and all other living things…
To Rejoice-‘to feel or show great joy or delight’. In Paul’s letter to the church at Philippi, he tells them to ‘Rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say…
Bema [‘BEE-MUH’] is a Greek word which was sometimes used to describe an elevated rostrum where orators spoke to assembled crowds, or, was used to denote the seat of a…
“Jerk-an insensitive, selfish, ignorant, cocky person who is inconsiderate and does stupid things“[urbandictionary.com] Looking back over the past decades of my life, I have become more aware of how certain…
Like Pilgrim, in the classic story of Pilgrim’s Progress, our own journey toward the celestial city often involves trouble, danger, traps, distractions, enemies, and woundedness to body and soul. It…
In His teaching, Jesus used many everyday examples and images taken from the peoples’ daily life e.g. fishing, farming, vineyard keeping/orchard management, etc. His parable of the fig tree, or…
Most of us, myself included, would likely have a difficult time offering a useful distinction between the meaning of assume and that of presume. A Grammarly.com blog post [May 17,…
In my last blog post I described Paul’s admonition to no longer be “children in your thinking…but in your thinking be mature” [I Cor 14:20]. One significant evidence of transitioning…
In his first letter to the church at Corinth, Paul says: “When I was a child I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a…
In Mark’s gospel chapter 4 verses 1-20 Jesus tells the very famous parable of the sower and soils. Regarding the seed that fell in the rocky soil, He says that…
In Paul’s letter to the church at Rome he sets forth in chapter 12 a list of components of behavior and attitudes that should symbolize the character of a Christ…