Luke 6:23 says, “Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.” Leaping for joy demonstrates faith. The night can be dark and long, but in the morning light, things look much different. The present darkness […]

Matthew 5:6 states, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” The tragic event of the Donner Party starving in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the winter of 1846-1847 is a picture of how hungry people can get. They not only ate anything leather, including their shoes, but

Hebrews 3:13 says, “But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) means “thick heart muscle disease.”I am not a doctor, nor do I have much understanding of the medical field. In fact, I don’t like long words that

Judges 2:2 says, “And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?” The family had recently moved up from California to the Northwest. One morning the Dad got up and looked out on a

Psalm 61:2 states, “From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” I have yet to visit Mount Rushmore National Memorial. From pictures and readings and what I have heard from visitors, I am overwhelmed that a man,

Psalm 40:3 says, “And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.” Years ago a group of students in college choir, at a Christian college, were on campus practicing their singing on a hot summer day in

Romans 5:5 says, “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Times were bad. Food was almost nonexistent. Four dirty, unclean, outcast men of society were about to die. It was a time of war. These men were

Joshua 4:24 says, “That the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever.” In The Story of Hans Brinker, by Alex de Wolf, we see a little Dutch boy holding his finger in the dike all night to

Revelation 1:10 says, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.” My dad was a Navy man in WWII. I presided at his funeral many years later. The Navy sent out a couple of sailors to present a flag to our family on

Deuteronomy 29:19 says, “And it shall come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:” Imagination can be a dangerous thing. It causes us to move from