Just a Guy and his Journey Back to God

Send us Fan Mail “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”  Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:36-40 AW Tozer writes,  "The comma...

Send us Fan Mail Spurgeon writes about a person needing to drop out of a burning building needing to be caught so they don't die being similar to a sinner needing to drop into the arms of Christ so they too won't die. He writes, "The Savior cries, "Drop! drop into my arms!" It is not doing, it is leaving off doing. It is not working, it is trusting in that work which Jesus...

Send us Fan Mail The bulk of Matthew 20 is the story of a landowner hiring workers for his field. Some worked long and others just a short time, yet they all received the same pay. When grumbling was heard amongst the workers that worked the most, the landowner asked, was it wrong for him to be generous?  The good news for us is that it doesn't matter if our sins are great or small, they&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. Matthew 19:8 In chapter 19, Jesus sees the heart of each person. He sees that the Pharisees are trying to trap Him, they aren't interested in who He really is and how He performs the miracles. He sees that the little children are innocent and sh...

Send us Fan Mail One of my greatest shortcomings and sin is pride and it seems, I might not be alone. In Matthew 18, we see the disciples debating who was going to be the greatest in heaven. Was it Moses, Abraham or possibly, they might have hoped, was it one of them? Jesus responds, it'll be a child! While being loved, children were a burden in a society that couldn't afford extra burde...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of Thanksgiving Day, we'll read Ephesians 1:15 where Paul shows us that being thankful is an activity, not a mere thought.  Regarding Matthew 17, Charles Spurgeon says, "The kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, while on earth, was so extensive as to touch the confines both of Heaven and Hell. We see Him at one moment discoursing with Moses and Elijah in His Glory,...

Send us Fan Mail AW Tozer says, "With perfect knowledge of all this Christ said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” So the cross not only brings Christ’s life to an end, it ends also the first life, the old life, of every one of His true followers. It destroys the old pattern, the Adam pattern, in the believer’s life, and brings it to...

Send us Fan Mail God loves us despite ourselves. If you swear, cheat or lie, God doesn't love you less. He doesn't want you to do those things because they're bad for you and others. He wants you focusing on your heart, not your actions. The Pharisees worried about clean hands. Jesus focused on the heart.  Join me in reading Matthew 15 and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail I hear people say that the Bible isn't relevant today. It's old and out of date. As I read Matthew 14 and all of the chapters, I keep seeing myself in the characters. I see myself doubting, needing another miracle, being selfish, greedy or mean. Thankfully, I also see Jesus loving those same people and giving them grace and that same grace and forgiveness is available to...

Send us Fan Mail You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn , and I would heal them.’ Matthew 13:14-15 Jesus speaks in many parables...

Send us Fan Mail GIVE ME A SIGN, and then I’ll believe. Give me some sign that Jesus is the Son of God, and then I will gladly become a Christian. I’ll go to church, say my prayers, read my Bible, and do the other things Christians are supposed to do. Just give me a sign. Matthew 12:38 How many more signs does Jesus need to perform to satisfy the Pharisees? The same question can be asked of me, &q...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus consistently reaches out to us. He knows what we need and it isn't a deal to close, a new car or a fancy house. He knows just as He knew for the paralyzed man. So join me in reading Matthew 11 and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail When Jesus sends His apostles out, He gives them great power and abilities, but He also gives them a reality check. As Spurgeon states, "It was no mean dignity to be among the twelve first heralds of salvation to the sons of Adam. Was a check needed to their high hopes? Perhaps so. Lest they should enter upon their work without having counted its cost, Christ gives them a ver...

Send us Fan Mail “Forgiveness is man’s deepest need and God’s highest achievement.”  That is not only a good summary of the effects of Jesus’ gospel, but it is also a good summary of what we read here in the first eight verses of the ninth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel. For here we will indeed see both that forgiveness is man’s deepest need and also God’s highest achievement.  Join me in reading Mat...

Send us Fan Mail When Jesus finished the Sermon on the Mount, he came down and performed three miracles that showed God's mercy is available to all!  His first healing was to a Leper, the most reviled and outcast of people in the Jewish society. His second miracle was for a Gentile, a Roman Centurian no less! The Romans were hated by the Jews because they oppressed and punished the Jews!  Las...

Send us Fan Mail Tozer writes about our dislike for the sins of others, "must not betray him into contempt for them as human beings. He must reverence the humanity of every man, however degraded, out of appreciation for his divine origin. No one for whom Christ died can be common or worthless. Humanity itself must be honored as the garment assumed by the Eternal Son in the Incarnation. To est...

Send us Fan Mail AW Tozer writes, "The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything—we have all the rest. Jesus made that plain when He said, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto y...

Send us Fan Mail But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sisterwill be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell. Matthew 5:22 AW Tozer points out that "a man who can say “You fool” to a fellow man is revealing a state of heart which will fit hi...

Send us Fan Mail "Jesus understands the weight of every particular temptation, even that particular temptation that so easily entangles you, because he was tempted to cheat God, to follow his own agenda, to take the detour to glory. Furthermore, just because Jesus never gave in to a particular temptation that you or I always seem to give in to does not mean he has never felt the tug of such a...

Send us Fan Mail Do you sometimes feel you need to earn God's love and grace? I've felt that way many times, but H loves us as a father loves his children, no performance needed. AW Tozer writes,  "A mother and a father do what they do because they love to do it.  It is the same with this awesome, eternal, invisible, infinite, all-wise, omniscient God, the God of our fathers, the Go...

Send us Fan Mail The example of the wise men shows that with a longing for God, not a deep knowledge, one can find Him. In Matthew 2, we see the example of the wise men who were foreigners and didn't have a complete understanding of the child who was to become the King. Despite that, they left everything and traveled far from home, following a star. Their passion and an imperfect understandin...

Send us Fan Mail The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). AW Tozer writes - ere is the whole final message of the New Testament: Through the atonement in Jesus’ blood sinful men may now become one with God. Deity indwelling men! That is Christianity in its fullest effectuation, and even those greater glories of the world to com...

Send us Fan Mail Genesis ends with the triumphant burial of Jacob and the final days of Joseph. In Genesis, we have learned how God doesn't give up on us. Regardless of what we do, he doesn't change his mind a leave us to our failure. Instead, He's right there when we're failing and awaiting our return. Thank you Lord for loving us so much! Join me in reading Genesis 50 and be...

Send us Fan Mail Blessings are a standard in the Bible, yet we have forgotten the power and strength of a parent's blessing on a child. The Bible uses the word approximately 100 times and yet we have forgotten the power!  Join me in reading how Jacob blesses his children and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail Just as Jacob adopted the two first born sons of Joseph, so God adopts us when we accept Christ as our Lord. We become His children with the same family tree as Jesus. Just as he had different plans for each of Joseph's boys, so God has different plans for us! Join me in reading Genesis 48 and be encouraged!   Just a Guy and His World