You can identify fools just by the way they walk down the street! (Ecclesiastes 10: 3 NLT) Solomon tells us that like a dead fly in a bottle of perfume, a little foolishness spoils great wisdom and honor. The world perpetuates the idea that when you become a Christian you turn off your ability to […]
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Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless—like chasing the wind (Ecclesiastes 4:4 NLT). The writer of Ecclesiastes is looking at life “under the sun.” He is excluding from his discussion heaven and hell. He concludes that “all is vanity” and life […]
You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world (Ephesians 5:5 NLT).But godliness is actually a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment (I Timothy 6:6 NASB).. We always […]
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? 10. But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” (Jeremiah 17:9-10) God judges on two levels; the action and the secret motive […]
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light and your judgment as the noonday (Psalms 37:6 NASB). The great commentator Matthew Henry once wrote, “If we are careful to keep a good conscience, we may leave it to God to take care of our reputation.” We get it wrong. We have a tendency to […]
The Critical Eighteen Inches Part 5The Journey from Head Knowledge to Heart Revelation Pilgrims Progress, considered one of the masterpieces of English literature, has a great deal to say about the head and heart in relation to the Christian experience. The author, John Bunyan, was once quoted as saying; “In prayer it is better […]
My name is Zach Malott and I’m the Senior Pastor at Mescalero Baptist Mission on the Mescalero Apache reservation in Southeast New Mexico. I am on staff at First Baptist Church of Ruidoso, New Mexico and pastor our Native American mission on the reservation. I currently hold a BS in Religion, working on the last few classes […]
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him (I John 5:14). Who does not want […]
To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NKJV). New Wine In Old Wineskins Old Beau was a good old dog. In his day he and his master Jake would never come back from hunting without game. But things had changed, all old Beau wants to do […]
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal (II Corinthians 4:18 NASB). Two times in this chapter the Apostle Paul tells us, “do not lose heart.” All […]