Know God or No God Sixty-six times In Ezekiel, in one form or another, God says, “that they will know that I am the Lord.” In my opinion, the key verse for this prophetic book is Ezekiel 26:22,23: “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name…I will […]

Get  FAT not fatter Faithfulness, Availability, and Teachable are the focus of our talk today. In the book, Christ in Men…Today, we see these character qualities in detail. This will be just a 30,000 ft. view. Can we agree that character counts? Society at large doesn’t seem to think so anymore. Signs of slippage are everywhere especially in the political […]

Nothing to See Here (a follow-up to last week’s post) Cover ups. Fake news. Lies. “Nothing to see here” is the common don’t-look-too-deep phrase that is intended to keep us moving. I’m still in Ezekiel and almost had to laugh at how timely God’s prophet’s message to the false prophets of his day is for the false prophets of our […]

Ready of Not, Here I come O.T. prophet Ezekiel lived about 600 years before Christ. He had the privilege (?) of passing along God’s message of condemnation to the people of Israel. As I read this morning in chapters 6-7 of Ezekiel’s prophecy, I couldn’t help feeling that this message could have just as easily been for today. Listen to […]

Leave God Out…at your own peril As I look back over the past 12 months, several things stand out. But I think the most dramatic is how confidence in our political and scientific leaders has all but evaporated. It’s like the old joke about how you know when a lawyer (politician, scientist, etc.) is lying…his lips are moving. Not so […]

The Last Day(s) Twenty-twenty has finally come to an end. And if that meant a new beginning, I’d be celebrating. Alas, the horizon is dark with foreboding signs not of politics as usual, but politics worse than ever. But I have good news…and bad news. The bad news is man’s heart is “more deceitful than all else and is desperately […]