July, 2025

• 2 July

  The Duty Is Ours

  

  I want to talk a little bit about the word Duty.  Its definition can be simplified to this, one person’s obligation to another. In the context for this article, it is our duty to God.  We who are saved by the one true living God have a duty to give ...

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• 1 July

  Christian Family? Make YOUR Decision!

  

  Just because a young man and young woman are saved does not mean they will have a Christian family. The Christian family today is loosely defined. It could refer to a man, a woman, and their children who occasionally attend church or actually join a church. As I looked for ...

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June, 2025

• 30 June

  Have You A Sanballat Or Tobiah In Your Life? 你的生活中有参巴拉或多比雅吗？

  

  Reading Nehemiah Chapter 4 阅读尼希米记 第4章 Have you a Sanballat or Tobiah in your Life? 你的生活中有参巴拉或多比雅吗？ When you start a work for God, you will suffer persecution and opposition. 当你开始为神工作时，你会遭受逼迫和反对。 We have already met in Chapter 2,  the three opponents of Nehemiah and here they come again. 我们已经在第二章中遇到了尼希米记的三个反对者，他们又来了。 Opposition will come ...

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• 30 June

  The Word & The Beginning: Light, Life, & Love Of God

  

  Genesis 1:1–3 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: and there ...

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• 28 June

  The Steadfast Love Of God

  

  In the Book of Psalms, the “steadfast love of God” appears over 100 times. This means that his love never waivers or changes. It is the same when the person does bad things as it is when someone is living a good moral and righteous life. Romans 5:8 says, “While ...

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• 27 June

  But You Have Been Washed / 但你们已经洗净了

  

  But You Have Been Washed / 但你们已经洗净了 Ephesians 2 2 in which you once walked. You were following the ways of this world [influenced by this present age], in accordance with the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit who is now at work in the disobedient [the ...

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• 27 June

  Winds Of Adversity Ring The Chimes

  

  Recently, a granddaughter gave us wind chimes, which we promptly hung from a beam in our open-air patio. They ring a pleasant sound, not with a melody you could sing, but a sweet, comforting, harmonious sound. They are near our bedroom window, so I can even hear them at night ...

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• 26 June

  A Call From Above: A Renewed Spiritual Connection: – An Interview

  

  A Conversation Across the Years  I conducted this interview via a conference call between 83-year-old Aunt Nora and her 59-year-old niece Deborah. There’s something sacred about the wisdom of the elders, and something restless yet hopeful in the younger generation’s pace. This conversation, caught between an old rotary-style warmth and ...

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• 25 June

  The Divine Defibrillator – 神圣的除颤器

  

  Ephesians 2:1 以弗所书2:1 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins你们死在过犯罪恶之中，他叫你们活过来。 (以弗所书 2:1 和合本) The Divine Defibrillator 神圣的除颤器 Once I was in a hospital and watched as doctors tried to revive a man, they put the electric charge on his chest and kept charging it, sadly ...

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• 25 June

  A Poem Of Healing And Shelter

  

  The Balm in Gilead  When shadows fall and hearts grow weak, When pain and fear no comfort seek, There walks a Man with hands outstretched, Whose voice calms storms and souls refreshed. He touched the leper, blind, and lame, And whispered life in mercy’s name. By stripes He bore, we ...

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