Divine Exclusivity

Put me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm.  For love is as strong as death, jealousy is as severe as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.  Song of Solomon 8:6 Jealousy – Are you the jealous type?  Before you deny this denigrated…

Love’s Identity Card

Put me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm.  For love is as strong as death, jealousy is as severe as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.  Song of Solomon 8:6 Seal – If Ezekiel shows us what the corruption of sex looks…

Sexual Idolatry

She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses   Ezekiel 23:20 Flesh – This world is drowning in sex.  Four million Internet porn sites.  One million people each year trafficked in forced sexual slavery.  Continued abuse of children and women in dozens…

Delivery Options

Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need   Hebrews 4:16 Mercy and Grace – How does God answer your prayers?  Does He provide exactly what you asked?  Or does He give precisely what you really need? …

Timing Is Everything

Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need   Hebrews 4:16 In Time Of Need – What’s good about need?  When help arrives.  Help too soon remains unused and unappreciated.  Help too late is wasted effort.  But…

The Believer’s First Amendment

Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need   Hebrews 4:16 Confidence – Believers have rights.  But let’s be clear about them.  Not a single one is granted by the government.  All the rights of a believer…

Star Trek Insanity

Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need   Hebrews 4:16 Draw Near – No man in his right mind would ever believe this verse!  It is a statement of religious impossibility, a spiritual death wish.  And…

Passport Control

Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need   Hebrews 4:16 Therefore – The author of Hebrews knows just what we need.  We need mercy and help in difficult times.  Not a single one of us would…

Grammatical Failures

and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible  1 Peter 1:8 Inexpressible – “I just don’t have the words to tell you.”  But we try, don’t we?  In fact, if you believe the lyrics of…

Life in the Clouds

and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible  1 Peter 1:8 Greatly Rejoice – “Life is difficult,” says M. Scott Peck.  “It’s not about you,” says Rick Warren.  And then there’s the quip about not…