Essential Loss

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,  Psalm 146:5  NASB Hope – When is it necessary to hope?  That’s an odd question, wouldn’t you say?  We don’t think about a particular time to hope.  Hope is almost like a constant companion.  We hope the weather will be…

Straw Man

More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my…