John 2:12-25 – The Inconvenient Truth about Faith

In this passage, Jesus angrily clears the temple because his Father’s house of prayer had been turned into a marketplace.  A place where there ought to be worship and surrender and devotion to God had been intermixed with non-religious activities such as buying...

Silence in heaven for about half an hour

In Revelation 8:1-4, in the midst of breaking of the seven seals and as the scroll of history is set to be fully unraveled, right before the trumpets of God’s judgment are sounded, there is an interesting verse. Verse 1 – "there was silence in heaven...

Matthew 25 – The Sheep and the Goat

Introduction   I recently realized something about myself. You may find this hard to believe, but I realized that I am no longer in the physical prime of my life. I watch other people in the movies like Daniel Craig jumping from rooftops or crashing through a wall and...

Give Careful Thought to Your Ways

If you are feeling complacent or smug in your faith, please take some time to read the book of Haggai. Its chilling words to Christians in their generation stands as an indictment against Christians of all generations, particularly those of us in the West. This book...