Devotionals
A daily word of encouragement, exhortation and edification, drawn from the Scriptures.
Behold God!
The message of the incarnation is a God-centered, vertical-focused message. Throughout Scripture the greatness and majesty of The Lord is repeated, in order to humble the pride of man and reveal to them their need for a Lord and Savior. Today we will be looking at...
Shine For Jesus!
God has called us “out of darkness and into His marvelous light”. The day-to-day display of this ‘translation’ is a life that reflects Christ-like thinking and living. As we grow in Jesus from newborn to maturity, we shine amidst a lost and crooked world. This witness...
The Submissive Mind
What joy there is in submission to the leading of the Lord. We find in our Scriptures this morning (Phil 2:19-30) three men of God walking in submission to the leading of God’s Spirit. This submissive mind is what the mind of Christ4 is all about. As I prepared this...
Grace To The Finish
We see in our study this morning (Ephesians 2:8-10) that when a person is saved by grace, he or she certainly does not stop there! When Paul wrote of grace, he was thinking of a runner who seeks to win a race. Paul wasn’t running to win his salvation, but he was...
A Hymn Is About Him
I find it interesting when fellow Christians discuss worship, particularly when they say that they prefer hymns of old instead of contemporary worship songs. I too love the old hymns, but I also love the new hymns. You see, “old” hymns like “Amazing Grace,” “A Mighty...
What’s On Your Mind?
“As he thinks in his heart, so is he.” How interesting - the connection between our heart and our thinking. Renewing our mind is vital for spiritual health. The mind that we are to seek is the mind of Christ, the mind of the Spirit. Before our new birth in Christ, our...
Contentment
The word contentment is a rare jewel in today’s world. Sad to say, it is equally rare amongst the Bride of Christ. To be content carries the idea of being satisfied. Paul said that he learned to be content. Well, if he learned how to be content, the implication is...
Choose Life
As I was riding my bike recently, I passed by a town sign with the slogan, “Where Life Is Worth Living”. I couldn’t help questioning that statement as I rode on my merry old way. However, I realized that if a person, town, or country is not looking to Jesus as the...
Reality Checks
A study of the attributes of God is both edifying and terrifying. The God of Scripture cannot be fooled, tricked, bribed or manipulated. The Creator of the universe knows each of us better than we know ourselves. David, who knew the Lord as his Shepherd, requested...
Prophecy, Israel And The Gospel
It never ceases to amaze me, when I see newscasts from or about the Middle East, how rapidly prophecy is coming together. Interestingly enough, the average person on the street also displays ‘antenna ears’ when he/she hears about the Israeli-Arab situation. The...
Laying Down Our Lives – For Whom?
This individual is extremely popular. He has charisma, that “something special.” Someone said his words reflect “the feelings I feel.” The songs he wrote speak about love and truth. (Could they be psalms?) He has a staff who work night and day; some don’t even draw a...
Indiana Jones And The Christian Quest?
Perhaps you recall the movie or its ad on television: Archeologist Indiana Jones is on a journey to find “The Holy Grail”. Nothing will stop him! He’s on a mission ‘from God’. Determination and faith are some of Indy’s qualities that enable him to successfully...
You And Your Words
Whenever an extreme position on any Biblical principle is taken, there is a danger of setting aside any Scriptural instruction that remotely relates to the subject for fear of being labeled a heretic. I’ve found this to be true in the area of words. The ‘positive...
Motivation
Two people can be doing the exact same thing outwardly, and yet in their hearts be motivated by different reasons. This proposes a question that each one of us must answer. Why do you do the things that you do? There are only three possibilities: to please my fellow...
Sent Out
It is very common within the church to have misconceptions about the people God uses. We must admit that, like the world, we may tend to glamorize or make heroes out of individuals that God mightily used. Paul is probably one of those “giants.” When we read about...
Jesus, Our Example Of Prayer
After a very busy, draining day of ministry, Jesus rose up very early for a time with the Father in prayer. Jesus sets the example for prayer. We know that He frequently spent time in prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. Before choosing His first ‘ministry team’ He...
Missing The Lord
Job declared that there were times when the Lord was working in His life but he was unable to “see” Him. Can you relate to Job’s experience? Have you ever found yourself wondering if Jesus Christ has forgotten about you? The eye of faith sees the hand of God at work....
Glorifying God
The ultimate purpose of the Christian is to bring glory to God. We have been created for His pleasure. So to determine, by God’s grace, to live in a way pleasing to Jesus will result in His being glorified. If we are going to truly bring glory to the Lord, it must...
God’s Book of Remembrance
One of the most important spiritual disciplines in the life of followers of Jesus Christ is the battle of the mind.
The Facts And Mysteries Of Healing
The Bible discloses one of the names of God as Jehovah Rapha, which means “The LORD our Healer”. We find elsewhere that God indeed is the One who heals all of our diseases. In the New Testament we find listed in the gifts of the Spirit “the gifts of healings”....
In His Presence
For years in my Bible reading, my understanding of Scripture was all too heady and lacked a real, living intimacy with my Lord Jesus. The “I AM” statements found in John’s gospel touched my heart one day. I knew that Jesus rose from the dead and ascended up to the...
The Call Of God
As we study the gospels we see Jesus time and time again calling people to follow Him. His invitation was a personal one that could either be accepted or refused. For example, Mark’s gospel records that Jesus found two brothers engaged in fishing and His message to...
What Is Repentance?
One of the first words out of our Lord’s lips in the first chapter of Mark is “repent”. What does the word “repent” mean? Basically it means to have a change of one’s mind or purpose. Biblical repentance involves a change of mind about God, the gospel of Jesus Christ,...
The Tragedy of a Hard Heart
Malachi 2:1,2 "And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them...
Our Future Kingdom
As we journey through this life, it’s important that we remember where our real home is. Each believer experiences tribulation in his or her pursuit of the kingdom of God. However saints, our hearts are not to be troubled by life’s perils and problems, but encouraged...
The Life That Is Blessed
What does a blessed life look like? Or let me put it this way: What does God say that a life that is blessed looks like? The answer is found in the Holy Scriptures. As we study what has been called “The Sermon on the Mount”, The Lord Jesus Christ opens His discourse...
Jesus, Our Advocate And Propitiation Of Our Sin
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world (1 John...
The Grace that Angered Jonah
The grace that Jonah received from The Lord gladdened Him. But when that very same grace was bestowed upon the wicked Assyrians in the city of Nineveh, it maddened him to the core.
The Pleasure Of Fellowship With Jesus
One of the most fascinating books in the entire Bible is the Song of Solomon. Despite the different interpretations of this book, there is one unmistakable feature, and that is the intimacy that exists between the bridegroom and the Shulamite woman. The term “beloved”...
Devoted, Determined, And Driven
As we read in Colossians 1:24-29, we see the apostle Paul was devoted to Jesus Christ at any cost and determined to fulfill the call of God upon his life. He was driven by the desire to proclaim the gospel to the lost and see people turned into disciples of Jesus...
The Deity Of Jesus Christ
Jesus is the visible image of the Invisible Father (John 1:18; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6; Hebrews 1:3). According to Strong’s Concordance, the Greek word translated “image” is “eikon”, and it means: “a likeness, i.e. (literally) statue, profile, or...
About Me
I am the Lead Pastor of Koinonia Fellowship, a husband, father and grandfather. I also serve on the worship team as one of the drummers.