“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words” (1 Thess 4:16-18). NKJV Perhaps you have been a bit troubled lately digesting a new twist of an old subject. Naysayers teaching that there will be no rapture of the church. If you are like me you are tired…

       “. . . If the salt loses its flavor . . .” (Matthew 5:14) Surreal, chilled, shrouded in darkness, and dauntingly deep—the massive cave quarried principally by hand into the Romania underground supplied salt for decades. Surrounded by tons of salt the following question flooded my thoughts. How could salt have been there for millennia waiting to be harvested and still it is salty? Just a minute—does salt ever lose its flavor or purposefulness? Jesus indicated that it could. How long does that take? Jesus said, Christians were the “salt of the earth” but then he asked a searching question, “If the salt loses its flavor, how…

    Thought Life Isa 55:6-9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”  Secure the stethoscope ear tips. Warm the diaphragm in your hands. Now, place your stethoscope over Isaiah’s heart. There—now you can hear it—the heartbeat of God! With every thump you can watch Isaiah pen God’s thoughts and ways from an ancient inkwell onto the pages of God’s Word. How kind of him to share with us the differences he observed between God and us. The dissimilarities in the way we think. You have noticed the same, haven’t you? Our perspectives and…