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Mountain Top Musings: THE ROMANCE OF REDEMPTION

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Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective. Sunday, August 09, 2015. THE ROMANCE OF REDEMPTION. 8220;The LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.”. When our children were small, we would say, “How much do you love me? 8221; We taught them to spread their arms way out and say, “I love you this much! 8221; How much does God love you? That is the nature of grace! Thus it is that the Son o...

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Mountain Top Musings: EVERLASTING LOVE

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Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective. Monday, August 03, 2015. The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.”. No, love squeezes tight. If we love like this, how much greater is God’s everlasting love! Imagine what it will be like when we reach heaven with all the redeemed of all the ages in an environment of infinite love! That is the joy that awaits. We can begi...

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Mountain Top Musings: THE BLESSEDNESS OF OBEDIENCE

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Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective. Friday, August 07, 2015. THE BLESSEDNESS OF OBEDIENCE. In Jeremiah thirty five, we find a family that has honored their father—the Rechabites. These were not Jews, but were Kenites—descendants of the nomadic people of Midian—the in-laws of Moses (1 Chron.2:55). They were “sojourners”. The Rechabites would be perpetually in a position of service to God (v.19). They would stand before the Lord marked with approval&#82...I am ...

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Mountain Top Musings: THE REQUEST OF REDEMPTION

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Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective. Monday, August 10, 2015. THE REQUEST OF REDEMPTION. And he said, "Who are you? So she answered, "I am Ruth, your maidservant. Take your maidservant under your wing, for you are a close relative.". Every religious system tries to present a path to reach its deity—some means of self-effort that can make a person acceptable to whomever or whatever they believe that deity to be. This chapter is the turning point in this drama.

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Mountain Top Musings: June 2015

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Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. THE GREATNESS OF THE GRACE OF GOD. 8220;Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by the LORD, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a true token, and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.”. Not so much the disease, as rejecting the cure. There is only one cure—Jesus.

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Mountain Top Musings: July 2015

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Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective. Friday, July 31, 2015. WHAT’S THIS WORLD COMING TO? Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. What’s this world coming to? Have you ever heard that question? Well, the Bible tells us! Mark 13 presents this period as a time of. This is a time of POWER (v.24-27). God’s power will be seen in the shaking of the universe. We have heard it said that the darkest hour is ju...The faithfulnes...

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Mountain Top Musings: THE REACH OF REDEMPTION

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Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective. Saturday, August 08, 2015. THE REACH OF REDEMPTION. 8220;Entreat me not to leave you,. Or to turn back from following after you;. For wherever you go, I will go;. And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;. Your people shall be my people,. And your God, my God.”. Its inhabitants were the descendants of Lot’s incest with his daughter. Moabites worshipped Chemosh, offering their little children in fire as sacrifices....Rom5:20b) D...

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Mountain Top Musings: January 2015

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Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective. Saturday, January 31, 2015. HOW TO GET THE MOST FROM A SERMON. And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear! We are busy people—always so much to do, and seemingly not enough time to do it. Time is too valuable to squander—yet, the Sunday morning sermon may be the most wasted half-hour of the week! Are you getting anything from the sermon? If not—then it certainly could be the preacher’s fault. This would req...

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Mountain Top Musings: April 2015

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Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective. Thursday, April 30, 2015. ARE YOU A THERMOMETER OR A THERMOSTAT? Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God. Will you be a thermometer or a thermostat? Wednesday, April 29, 2015. THE DEVOTION GOD DELIGHTS IN. All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the LORD. Or "She acts like her Daddy! God delights in thos...