When the Israelites went to war with Amalek (Ex 17), the Word gives us a picture of Moses on top of the hill praying over the battle. Every time Moses weakened and lowered his hands the battle shifted in favor of Amalek. But standing alongside of Moses were Aaron and Hur, Caleb’s Son, who would hold up Moses’ […]

How often the world hears the word “meekness” and associates it with “weakness.” It seems that the meek shall inherit the earth (Matt 5:5) is just another way of saying that it’s those who don’t do anything that will wind up the winners in the end. What the world, and many Christians, misses is verse 3: theirs […]

I remember the day as clearly as if it was yesterday, the first day of school and my first day in first grade. It was back in those days that if you were going to play in the school band you started at six years old. Well, whether I wanted to or not I don’t […]

Just a little reminder to us all… We are not celebrating the 4th of July today. No matter how we are surrounded with that phrase, we cannot forget that we are not celebrating a day. We are celebrating what we have been blessed to enjoy every day of our lives. Let us not forget that […]

I was thinking about a verse that I have written about previously on a number of occasions and something hit me that, while I knew it, I never really thought about it. Eph 5:18 … but be filled with the Spirit I have always focused on the tense of the word “filled” (present continuous)… be being filled. We […]