Jesus, The Son Of God

Imagine sitting in the congregation in Thyatira and hearing the pastor say, “I have a letter from the risen Lord Jesus, the Son of God.” I would fully expect that each person in that room would be sitting on the proverbial “edge of their seats”! These are the words of...

Consider Your Ways

Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. Haggai 1.5,7 The word for you and me today is simple. Consider your ways. Literally, “set your heart upon your ways,” that is, take to heart, in the sense of thinking seriously about what we are doing....

The disaster of disobedience

Ezek 14.23 And ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD. The Sovereign Lord has told Ezekiel that because of the idolatry of His people, instead of answered prayer, they would be facing severe consequences of...

Reading and agreeing or Believing and doing?

James 1.21-25 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the...

Obedience is better than brilliance

Mic 6.8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?I want to share with you precious saints an observation that I have made as a pastor over the last 30...