If you are unhappy right now, it’s because you forgot what you deserve. In your mind, you really think you deserve better or more than what you have. And therefore, you are unhappy. If you are thoroughly convinced that you were a condemned sinner, then you would be happy with any and all circumstances (since […]

1 Peter 2:1-3–So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2  Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. It was God’s design from the institution of the family to be a “nurturing center” […]

Human beings can be so intelligent and yet be so dumb at the same time. The students were having this conversation in my class. Apparently, some trans-gender athletes are trying to change the law to allow themselves compete in women’s sports. My students were befuddled because they knew that this was unfair – essentially men […]

Numbers 16:46,48– And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun.”…48 And he stood between the dead and the living, and the […]

Hebrews 13:20-21–Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21  equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.  […]

Are you meek? Not weak, but meek. You are meek if you don’t defend yourself when criticized. You are meek if whatever evil or misfortune comes your way, you believe you actually deserved worse. Is that a desirable quality? Yes! “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” Matthew 5:5Moses is praised by God for […]

It is not a nice feeling when someone forgets all you’ve done for him/her. As a dad, I get hurt when my girls sometimes forget all that I have done for them over the years. At those moments, I think to myself, “How can you say that after all that I have done for you?” Have […]

Ephesians 6:10-12–Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,…As a child growing up, I thought the greatest challenge of adulthood was the ability to pay bills, […]

I’m writing this from my classroom at Lakes High School. My chair is uncomfortable (it doesn’t recline), I am stressed and tired of grading, and my students aren’t cooperating! On Wednesdays, we were allowed to stay home and do virtual teaching, but now they are requiring us to come in. How tiresome! And yet, this is […]

Job 14:7-9– “For there is hope for a tree,if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,and that its shoots will not cease.8 Though its root grow old in the earth,and its stump die in the soil,9 yet at the scent of water it will budand put out branches like a young plant.I believe nothing makes our human existence […]