…do not harden your hearts… See to it…that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God(Hebrews 3: 8 &12). What’s the difference between a person who is hardheaded and one who is hard-hearted? To have a hard head means you are stubborn, but it can also mean you are determined not give up. To be hard-hearted is something else altogether. Your heart is the number one indicator of how you will fare in this life. In fact, you are to guard yo

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor. 3:18).” “Mirror, mirror on the wall who’s the fairest of them all” so goes the line from the Brothers Grimm story, Snow White. What do you see when you look in a mirror? You may retort, “Me, myself, and I silly with all my flaws and defects.” Mirrors do more than reflect the outside of a per

But their minds were made dull... But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away… who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory (2 Cor. 3:14-18 NKJV). Are there days when your mind is dull, and you can’t seem to put one foot in front of another? Sin will cloud your mind to the love of Christ and his desire for you. Your thoughts become very dismal indeed when days on end you stare at Face

“We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored (1 Cor. 4:10)!” Proverbs speaks of foolishness being bound up in the heart of a child. Unfortunately, many adults grow up in this world without proper discipline and in short continue to “act the fool.” The Hebrew language gives us a wide variety of definitions for foolish people. One thing is sure a fool does not travel the highway of holiness, whi

It will be named the Highway of Holiness. Evil-minded people will never travel on it. It will be only for those who walk in God’s ways; fools will never walk there (Is. 35:8). As a kid when summer rolled around, I liked to pick blackberries. I’d take a pig path to find them growing wild and free in the woods across from my house. It’s surprising the stuff I saw in those woods following these little side trails. Things like old bottles, abandon wells mostly junk like beat up