Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. You…
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days….
But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. In October of 2008 my family and I embarked on a road trip to the southern part of Brazil to attend a conference I had…
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then…
Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and…
Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. As I write this, Pride Month, 2023 has just wrapped up, and as Pride Months go, it has been particularly spectacular. It began with…
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Things were not going well for Jacob the Patriarch. A chain of disgraceful events, culminating in violation of his daughter and the revenge killing of the male population of an entire city by…
Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. If you are any kind of Civil War buff at all, you are aware of the controversy surrounding Confederate General J.E.B Stuart’s fateful ride around the Union Army at Gettysburg. Whether you tend to sympathize with the South or (like me) the…
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” My Dad likes to tell the story of a pastor in a small country church. At the end of every service the pastor would stand at the door to greet his parishioners. Invariably, one particular man would…
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? In a conversation about the…