Archive for the ‘Receiving His Riches’ Category

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." It's a lie..... Full story

Most of us, I think, have joined the side of those Jews who took offense at this teaching and muttered, "How can this man give us His flesh to eat?" Full story

In the last year or so, I have read many a message from one Christian preacher or another recommending that we and our churches store up foodstuffs and other necessary supplies against hard times to come. In this way, we will not only be able to care for ourselves and our families but also for our neighbors.... Full story

"What would it be like if our feeding programs didn't just fill empty tummies, but so confronted us with the reality of God's miraculous love for us that thousands turned to Jesus as King?" Full story

The NFL is as popular as it is because the warrior spirit lives in every man. Because we haven't learned to engage the enemy in spiritual warfare, we have taken to consuming football games instead. Full story

One of my earliest church memories is of my first grade Sunday school class marching in circles in the second floor parish hall at Trinity Church in Columbus Ohio, singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." Full story

In keeping with this week's theme of God's break-out, I thought I'd repost an old RHR that deals with the same idea, the fire of God. Receiving His Riches 9 - II Advent, Year A Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 This week, as I was preparing for Sunday's service, I was very much taken with the "unquenchable fire" with which John says that Jesus will consume the ... Full story

Receiving His Riches 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 Psalm 24 or Amos 7:7-15 Psalm 85:8-13 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:14-29 Reading this week's text from 2 Samuel I was taken back to the 80's, to the first of the "Indiana Jones" movies, "Raiders of the Lost Ark." In the climactic scene the bad guys (Nazis) open up the Ark and find a bunch of dust. Indiana warns his companion to keep her eyes shut though, ... Full story

Brothers and sisters, this joy isn't just something you and I were meant to know in heaven. We can know the safety and security that the lowest know just by "going lower" ourselves. And God will meet us in those low places, and bless us, and then He'll invite us to go lower, to give up more of our self-regard so that we ... Full story

It's all about where the glory lands. When I am rolling smoothly through my life, others are likely to think that I might have had something to do with any blessing I leave in my wake. But when I am struggling, when I am weak, it doesn't happen that way. My weakness serves to bring glory to God in two ways that I can ... Full story

"The difficulty is that we have turned Jesus' set of guidelines for prayer into a prayer itself, made it into a rote prayer, and robbed it of it's power." Full story

"It may be difficult to imagine that this is a blessing, but it is. To know the Father's heart that intimately is to know love so furious that all else melts away in it's heat." Full story

....Friends, if you are reading this, it is no doubt in part because you are seeking something you don't yet have. You're trying to discover a way to lay claim to the desires of your heart. You are, in some way, hungry, thirsty.... Full story