10/12/2025 – “How Islamic expansion from the east spread renaissance and reformation in the west.”
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10/12/2025 – “Getting Into God’s Stride” / “Enoch walked with God …’ (Genesis 5:24)
“The true test of a person’s spiritual life and character is not what he does in the extraordinary moments of life, but what he does during the ordinary times when …
Read More10/11/2025 – “Joy in Our Trials” / “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” (James 1: 2-4)
“For a long time, I have imagined that I see everybody with a wheelbarrow. I have a wheelbarrow too. We push them around, and inside our trials, temptations, …
Read More10/11/2025 – “Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.”Lamentations 3:41// Morning devotion
The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favours without constraining us to …
Read More10/10/2025 – “The harvest of heaven and hell” / “Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.” Matthew 3:8
The Seed in The Spirit’s Fruit
Friday, October 10, 2025
In agriculture, the seed produces fruit. But fruit also bears seed. So within fruit is found seed. So, too, in the Spirit. …
Read More10/09/2025 – “Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.” (Jude 1:24)// Morning Devotion
“Able to keep you from falling.”Jude 24
In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is no road so dangerous. It is beset …
Read More10/08/2025 – “Battle of Lepanto, and Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote” – American Minute with Bill Federer / Comments below.
If we took a survey of Americans, ages 18 and above, how many could recount even summarily the battle of Lepanto, Don Juan of Austria, and realize that “Don …
Read More10/08/2025 – “The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God’s one aim is the production of saints. He is not an eternal blessing machine for men; he did not come to save men out of pity; he came to save men because he had created them to be holy.” Oswald Chambers from “My Utmost for His Highest” daily devotional (Comment below)
I’ve noted this before: Priorities for us for the remainder of our life in this world, just a relative breath, literally the mathematically limit approaching -0- in length as …
Read More10/08/2025 – “A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory comes from the Lord.” Proverbs 21:31
The Battles You Win By Not Fighting
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
George Washington was not only America’s first president but the victorious general of the American Revolution. Yet, most people don’t realize …
Read More10/07/2025 – “‘The River of Life’section – Revelation 22: 1-5 / Link – “What is the Feast of Tabernacles / Booths / Sukkot?” – below
Messiah at The Feast of Tabernacles
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
During the Feast of Tabernacles, the people went down to the Pools of Siloam to draw water – and then brought it …
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