Just a Guy and his Journey Back to God

Send us Fan Mail Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a n...

Send us Fan Mail This Psalm so sweetly and so accurately pictures the inward griefs of our Divine Savior that it might have been written after the Crucifixion rather than so many hundreds of years before it. I call your attention to the fact that this  Psalm is followed by the 23rd, which begins, "The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want," to remind you that you and I  would never have...

Send us Fan Mail Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2...

Send us Fan Mail For from him and through him and for him are all things.  To him be the glory forever! Amen. Romans 11:36 Charles Spurgeon describes this last verse of Romans 11 during his sermon in May of 1864 this way: "My text consists almost entirely of monosyllables, but it contains the loftiest of sublimities. Such a tremendous weight of meaning is concentrated here that an archangel’s...

Send us Fan Mail Be exalted in your strength, LORD;  we will sing and praise your might Psalms 21:13 Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, “Be exalted,” and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity. By the exercise of his will he has...

Send us Fan Mail For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. Romans 10:10 AW Tozer describes Faith this way, "Faith is a redirecting of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus. Sin has twisted our vision inward and made it self-regarding. Unbelief has put self wher...

Send us Fan Mail Psalm 20 is a prayer of blessing to us. Thank God for His blessing. Join me in praying for this blessing upon all of us and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. Romans 9:16 Spurgeon writes,"I believe that the two great doctrines of human responsibility and divine sovereignty have both been brought out the more prominently in the Christian Church by the fact that there is a class of strong-minded hard-headed men who magnify sovereignty at the expense of resp...

Send us Fan Mail In chapter 7 of Romans, Paul talks about how the Christian is often in a battle between their spiritual self that wants to do God's will and their physical self that wants to sin. In fact he states in verse 25 he provides this hope, "Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nat...

Send us Fan Mail May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. Psalms 19:14 This Psalm teaches us the excellence of the two Revelations which God has made to man. The first is the Revelation which He has made in Nature, and the second is that which He has made in His Inspired Word. The Psalmist first sings of God as He display...

Send us Fan Mail So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who deliver...

Send us Fan Mail What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? Romans 6:1 The Russian monk Rasputin, who dominated the Romanov family in their final years. Rasputin taught that salvation came through repeated experiences of sin and repentance. He argued that because those who sin more require more forgiveness, those who sin with abandon will as they repent experience...

Send us Fan Mail Romans 5 has two parts that cause me to marvel at God's symmetry and order: The first is, " Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been giv...

Send us Fan Mail “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Romans 4:3 As AW Tozer says in his book The Attributes of God, "the Scripture does not say, “Abraham believed the text, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” It says, “Abraham believed God.” It was not what Abraham believed, it was who Abraham believed that counted." Join me in reading Romans 4...

Send us Fan Mail Psalm 18 celebrates the way God has shown his love to his people by giving them the Davidic monarchy and by preserving David through many dangers. The text of the psalm is almost identical to David’s personal expression of gratitude to the Lord in 2 Samuel 22.  Let's pray to God to preserve our nation and to provide victory over the evil that is attacking our land!   Just a G...

Send us Fan Mail But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ...

Send us Fan Mail Ken Hughes says of Psalm 17, "in many ways Psalm 17 is a model prayer. It is urgent, perceptive, honest, and moving. David appeals to God and convinces him to answer and to act. He argues his case, explaining why God should listen to him.  Psalm 17 is closely connected to the psalms around it. Psalms 15, 16, and 17 all call for the protection of God’s presence (Psalm 15:1; 16...

Send us Fan Mail A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God. Romans 2:28-29 We continue to see in Romans what we've seen in all of our other reading...

Send us Fan Mail The British preacher Charles Spurgeon shared this story and thought when he was preaching about Romans 1:20-21: After a missionary had gone into a certain part of India and had given away New Testaments, a Hindu waited upon him and asked him this question — "Did you not write that first chapter in the Epistle to the Romans after you came here?" "No," replied th...

Send us Fan Mail Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods or take up their names on my lips. LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. Psalms 16:4-5 Romans 1 shows us what it is like to live without God , let us pray the Psalm 16 to live a life that says," LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; y...

Send us Fan Mail The Book of Romans tells us and shows us that the human heart is sick. Indeed, the self-salvation attempts to which all humans are so prone are both futile and unnecessary. For Romans teaches that, while immorality does not earn God’s favor (Romans 1), neither does morality (ch. 2). Our goodness cannot accomplish the salvation that our badness requires. “Works of the law” will jus...

Send us Fan Mail This hymn celebrates the ideal worshiper of the Lord. David does not claim to have achieved these character qualities. He simply yearns to have them more and more. I too yearn to have these qualities, too. Join me praying Psalm 15 and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. James 5:11 So often when times are tough, I wonder "why God"? I want it to end and for things to be better, but only once I have accepted whatever God wants in my life, do things usua...

Send us Fan Mail The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Psalms 14:1 Join me in praying Psalm 14 and let's admit we have turned our backs on God at times and need His restorative Grace.    Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. James 4:7-8 It's interesting how just yesterday, we read that Spurgeon, at times, becomes very down. Today that is me. Thankfully, we have instruction and guidance from God on what to do, Submit yourself! Thank you Lord for the direction and promise!...